Holiday Baking: Chocolate Orange Stripe Cookies

Chocolate Orange Stripe Cookies

This is my favorite cookie. Why? It has every flavor in one cookie. Chocolate, chocolate chip, orange, black walnuts, all wrapped in a sugary butter cookie. YUM!

I found this recipe in a book that Gold Medal flour put out years ago. You never know how those recipes will be until you try them, but this is a winner!

Chocolate Orange Striped Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup unsalted butter

1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 egg

2 1/4 cups "Gold Medal" all purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 ounce bittersweet chocolate

1/4 cup finely chopped walnuts

1 tablespoon grated orange zest

1/3 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips

Beat butter , sugar, vanilla, and egg in an electric mixer on medium, until completely blended. Add flour and salt

Divide dough into 3 parts. Mix melted chocolate and nuts into 1 part. Mix orange zest into another part. Mix chocolate chips into another part.

Line a 9x5x3 inch loaf pan with plastic wrap.

Spread orange dough evenly in the pan, then the chocolate, then the chocolate chip dough.

Cover dough and refrigerate for 2 hours.

When you're ready to bake, heat oven to 375 degrees.

Cut dough lengthwise in half. Cut crosswise into 1/4 inch slices.

Place 1 inch apart on parchment or Silpat lined cookie sheet.

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes.

Cook on rack.

The dough is yummy too!

The dough doesn't spread too much.

Cool on a rack right away!

YUM. YUM. YUM!!!