Chocolate and Orange Cookies

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Chocolate and Orange Cookies

The cookie, despite its modest size, has a lengthy history and is beloved by millions. The definition of a cookie is somewhat broad. A cookie is any flour-based sweet cake that can be readily held in your hand. Cookies can be crisp or soft, thick or thin. The first cookies are supposed to be test cakes baked by bakers to test the oven temperature. They date back to the seventh century A.D. in Persia, which is now Iran. They were one of the first countries to cultivate and harvest sugar cane.
Following the Industrial Revolution, technological advancements resulted in a greater variety of commercially available cookies. The base for all cookies, however, was the same: wheat flour, sugar, and fats such as butter and oil. Of course, when Europeans landed in the Americas, they took their cookie recipes with them. They quickly altered the traditional recipes to match the New World. American butter cookies are related to English teacake and Scottish shortbread.
The first American cookies to appear in cookbooks were called Jumbles, Plunkets, and Cry Babies, which gave no indication of what was inside. New ingredients began to appear in cookie recipes as technology advanced in the United States. For example, with the railroad, more people could buy fruits and nuts like coconuts and oranges. After the Kellogg brothers produced cornflakes in the late 1800s, cereal began appearing in cookie recipes. When electric refrigerators were available in the 1930s, icebox cookies became popular as well.
The chocolate chip cookie was designated as the official cookie of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1997. The exact origin of the Fig Newton is unknown. According to one report, jam-filled cookies were made in 1891 by a Philadelphia inventor called James Henry Mitchell, who devised the equipment that allowed the cookies to be filled with jam. The machine was patented in January 1892, and the cookies were named after Newton, Massachusetts.
Nowadays, cookies are loved around the world. Cookies are one of my favorite dessert and I love to make them around Christmas season. I made these cookies with chocolate and orange flavor and they were delicious. These cookies taste like Christmas and are perfect for this season.
PREP TIME 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 6
Calories 284 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 200 butter
  • 250 flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 80 g sweetener
  • 80 g coconut sugar
  • dark chocolate
  • orange zest
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions
 

  • Mix the room temperature butter with the coconut sugar and the sweetener until get a foamy consistency. Add the eggs, vanilla extract and incorporate them with the butter. Add the flour, grated orange peel, finely chopped chocolate and mix everything very well
  • With an ice cream scoop take the composition and put it in a tray lined with baking paper, leaving space between the cookies. Bake for 12-14 minutes at 180 degrees. The cookies will be soft on the inside, crispy on the outside and full of orange flavour.

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