Orange and White Chocolate Cookies

These cookies are a nice change from the standard lime, white chocolate and macadamia nut cookie. Once again, this cookie is not too sweet and the orange is a great combination with the white chocolate.

Orange and White Chocolate Cookies

6 tablespoons butter, very soft

¼ cup brown sugar

¼ cup fine white sugar

1 egg

1 ½ cups flour, sifted

¼ teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon baking soda

¼ teaspoon salt

Zest from 2 clementine oranges, finely grated

Juice from 1 clementine orange

½ to ¾ cup white chocolate chips (or chopped white chocolate)

Directions:

• Beat the butter and sugar together.
• Add the egg.
• Sift the dry ingredients.
• Grate the zest from 2 clementine oranges.
• Juice 1 clementine orange.
• Add the white chocolate.
• Mix the orange juice, zest, white chocolate, flour mix, and wet ingredients together.
• Do not over mix.
• Refrigerate the dough for at least 1 hour.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

Notes:

• Refrigerating the dough really helps the orange flavor spread through out the cookies.
• Regular oranges could be used as well. If you use a regular orange, I would use the zest from 1 orange and the juice from ½ the orange.
• If the dough is sticky after mixing, sift a little more flour and mix into the dough.
• Similar to the Whole-Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies, the dough should be stiff when forming the cookies (but not at stiff as the chocolate chip cookies). As a result, the dough will not flatten during baking. Half-way through the baking process, remove the cookie sheets from the oven and use the back of 2 spoons to gently flatten the cookies. This will help them spread just a little bit, but also makes them chewy and moist.
• Once again, I have guessed at the cooking temperature and time. I have been baking mine at 180 degrees Celsius for 5-7 minutes (in a small convection oven).
• You could easily add macadamia nuts to the dough for added flavor.