Cardamom,Orange And Chocolate Ribbon Cookies
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1/2 cup good quality shortening at room temperature (I like Spectrum)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons whole milk or half and half
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- Zest of one orange
- 1/3 cup (1 1/2 ounces) semi-sweet chocolate melted (Use the microwave method -- it's great.)
- 1/4 teaspoon cardamom
- 1/2 cup toasted walnuts chopped finely
- In mixing bowl beat butter and shortening with an electric mixer or stand mixer with paddle attachment for approximately 30 seconds. Add sugar, baking soda, and salt and beat until combined. Beat in the egg, milk, and vanilla. Add flour and mix to combine with spoon. Melt the chocolate in the microwave at 30-second intervals stirring in between. It took me 60 seconds.
- Divide dough in half. Knead the melted chocolate and walnuts into half of the dough and then the cardamom and orange zest into the other half. Line a 9- by 5- by 3-inch loaf pan with plastic wrap. Divide chocolate dough in half and press into the bottom of the loaf pan, now divide the vanilla dough in half and press on top of chocolate layer, now another chocolate layer, and finish with the vanilla layer. Cover with the plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 375u0b0 F.
- Remove from refrigerator, invert onto cutting board, and remove plastic wrap. Divide into 3 equal pieces (each is 3 inches) and cut each third into 12 equal pieces that are about 1/4 inch thick. Place on baking sheet with either parchment or silpat and bake for 10 to 12 minutes turning baking sheet around halfway through baking (5 minutes). BE CAREFUL NOT TO OVERBAKE! Remove from oven when edges start to turn a light brown. If you leave them in longer than the prescribed baking time they become overdone and are really crunchy. I took out my batch of cookies at 11 minutes. They were just right. It's almost counterintuitive, but it's important for this recipe to adhere to the bake time.
butter, spectrum, sugar, baking soda, salt, egg, milk, vanilla, allpurpose, orange, semisweet chocolate, cardamom, walnuts
Taken from food52.com/recipes/14835-cardamom-orange-and-chocolate-ribbon-cookies (may not work)