Chocolate Orange Shortbread Sandwich Cookies - Buttery chocolate shortbread cookies sandwiched together with a simple but decadent chocolate orange filling. Perfectly scrumptious to serve at an elegant afternoon tea.
Course
Cookies
Cuisine
American
Keyword
chocolate, orange, shortbread
Prep Time25minutes
Cook Time12minutes
Total Time37minutes
Servings18servings
Calories328kcal
AuthorBarry C. Parsons
Ingredients
1 1/2cupsbutter
1/2cupwhite sugar
1/2cuppacked brown sugar
2tspvanilla extract
3cupsplus 2 tbsp all purpose sifted flour
1/2cupsifted cocoa
1/4tspfine salt
FOR THE GANACHE FILING
1cupdark chocolate chipsor semisweet
1/4cupwhipping cream
Zest of one small orangefinely minced
Instructions
Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla very well.
Sift together the cocoa, flour and salt.
Work the dry ingredients into the butter mixture until a dough forms.
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill for one hour in the fridge.
Roll the dough out to 1/8 inch thick or a little thicker (3-4 mm).
Cut out cookies with a small,1 1/2 inch (4 cm) cookie cutter.
Bake on a parchment lined cookie sheet in a preheated 350 degree oven for about 12-13 minutes.
Let the cookies cool completely before sandwiching them together with a little of the chocolate orange ganache.
TO MAKE THE GANACHE FILLING, scald the whipping cream to almost boiling.
Pour the scalded cream over the chocolate chips in a double boiler and stir only until the chocolate has melted.