Orange Chocolate Cookies 橙味巧克力饼 CNY 2016

Just last week when I saw this chocolate cookies recipe shared in one of the Facebook baking groups, I knew I just had to make them soon. So here is my version with grated orange zest. These cookies are not only chocolatey and full zesty orange fragrance, they are also crumbly and melt-in-your-mouth.  As Chinese New Year is coming in about 4 weeks' time which falls on 8th Feb this year, why not add this to your CNY baking list too? 

Orange Chocolate Cookies

      Ingredients:
      150g butter, softened a little
      50g icing sugar, sifted
      1 egg yolk (about 22g)
      150g plain flour
      1/4 tsp baking powder
      30g cocoa powder (I used valrhona cocoa powder) 
      1/2 tbsp orange zest from 2 oranges

   ** change plain flour to 170g and less cocoa powder to 20g if you're afraid too much cocoa powder will gives a bitter taste to the cookies.

      Method:

• Preheat oven to 150 deg C. Sift plain flour, baking powder and cocoa powder in a bowl, set aside.
• Beat butter, icing sugar and orange zest at low speed till smooth and add egg yolk, mix well.
• Pour in flour mixture in batches to form to a dough. Scoop dough into a piping bag and pipe onto lined paper tray with desired design.
• Bake cookies for about 15 minutes (I baked 20 mins) and leave to cool before storing into an airtight container.

     

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橙味巧克力饼

     材料：

     150克 牛油，稍微软

     50克 糖粉，过筛

     1个 蛋黄 （约22克）

     150克 普通面粉

     1/4茶匙 发粉

     30克 可可粉

     1/2汤匙 2粒鲜橙皮屑

假如担心太多可可粉会使饼干有一点苦的话，可以把可可粉减低到20克而面粉换成170克

     做法：

• 预热烤箱摄氏150度。将面粉，可可粉机发粉过筛，备用。
• 将牛油，糖粉及鲜橙皮屑以慢速度搅拌至滑，再加哦入蛋黄拌匀。
• 把面粉分次加入蛋糊搅拌成团。并用您喜欢的花嘴挤出漂亮的形状。
• 放进预热烤箱烤15分钟 （我烤了20分钟），待凉后收进密封罐子。

   **很喜欢这橙味巧克力饼。很香，很松...有种入口即化的感觉。