Chocolate Orange Snaps

These Chocolate Orange Snaps are super easy as well as unbelievably delicious! Roll out cookies with your kids for a special treat and an hour or so of baking fun! These cookies are insanely delicious — I actually have to hide them from my husband or he’ll eat them all — and the dough is really durable so you can keep rolling it out over and over again to make more cookies without worrying about it getting tough.

Author: Weelicious

Meal Type: Peanuts Free

Cuisine: American

Difficulty: MEDIUM

Prep. Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

Servings: 36 cookies

Calories: 73 kcal per serving

Ingredients

1 ½ cups - all purpose flour
¼ tsp - kosher salt
⅓ cup - cocoa powder
1 tsp - baking powder
½ cup - brown sugar
½ cup - unsalted butter
1 - egg
1 ½ teaspoons - orange zest
1 cup - powdered sugar
1 tbsp - milk

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 F.
In a bowl, whisk the flour, salt, cocoa and baking powder.
Using a standing mixer or hand mixer in a bowl, cream the sugar and butter for 3-4 minutes until it is light and airy.
Add the egg and orange zest and mix for an additional minute.
Slowly add the dry ingredients into the wet until the dough comes together.
Remove and shape the dough into a flat disk and place between two pieces of parchment paper.*
Roll dough out until it is 1/4 inch thick. Cut into shapes using cookie cutters.
Place cookies on a Silpat or parchment lined baking sheet and bake: 10 minutes if you want your cookies to be slightly soft or 12 minutes if you like them crispy.
Cool and serve.
Combine the ingredients in a bowl.
Use to decorate the cookies.
* Dough can be refrigerated for up to 2 weeks at this step.

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