double chocolate cookies

Name: Orange Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 20
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1/2 cup vegan butter, softened (or solid coconut oil); 1/2 cup coconut sugar; 6 Tbsp brown sugar; 1 large egg, room temp; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 3/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour; 6 Tbsp Dutch process cocoa powder; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 1/2 tsp salt; 1 1/4 cup chopped dairy-free dark chocolate or chocolate chips; Zest of 2 large oranges (+ extra for topping, if desired)

Orange Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies

March 10, 2020 by Rachael Ng 5 Comments

Orange Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies

These luscious Orange Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies are thin, chewy, and totally delicious. If you’re looking for a cookie to satisfy that chocolate orange craving, these are the cookies for you!

Orange Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Who else loved those orange flavored chocolate oranges as a kid?! You know, the ones that are – for whatever reason – popular at Christmas time. I’m going to go ahead and say those little, smack-able oranges are the sole reason I’m such a fan of chocolate orange flavored desserts as an adult. Orange chocolate bars, orange brownies, orange chocolate cupcakes (coming soon!) – I’ll take them all!

These cookies are the perfect mash up of orange and chocolate. Dark chocolate cookies (thanks to the wonderfully rich Dutched cocoa) with pools of melted dark chocolate chunks and tons of fresh orange zest. For me, the orange zest adds just enough flavor without being overwhelming. And then I added more on top of each cookie because just look how pretty it is!

This cookie dough comes together like any other standard dough – mix wet, then dry, and stir it all together with a big spoon. There’s no refrigeration required (woo hoo!), so you’re only minutes away from delicious and rich orange chocolate cookies!

Some of the ingredients I like for this recipe:

Vegan butter keeps these cookies tasting like regular, butter-filled cookies! If you’d like, you can replace it with solid coconut oil (either refined, which is flavorless, or unrefined). Tip: if using coconut oil and it’s liquid, you can place it in the refrigerator until it solidifies.

Coconut sugar is my go-to sugar for baked goods. It’s low GI, unrefined, and tastes nothing like coconut! It’s a bit better for us than regular white sugar, so I like to use it whenever I can.

Brown sugar lends moisture and sweetness to these cookies. With the added molasses in brown sugar, these cookies come out wonderfully chewy.

Dutch process cocoa powder is richer in flavor and darker in color than regular cocoa powder. The chocolate flavor is heightened with this kind of cocoa powder, but if you’re having a hard time finding it at your local store, you can use natural (regular) cocoa powder. Tip: Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa has been reformulated to contain 100% Dutched cocoa.

Dark chocolate chunks (chopped from a chocolate bar) create those wonderful melty pools of chocolate! Chocolate chips or chunks from a bag are made to keep their shape, so if you want the melty pools then go for the chopped chocolate! Tip: Trader Joe’s sells 1 pound bars of dairy-free dark and semi-sweet chocolate for $5 – perfect for baking!

More orange recipes:

Orange Loaf with Almond Buttercream (dairy-free + vegan option)

Grain-Free Orange Brownies (dairy-free)

Soft & Chewy Orange Sugar Cookies (dairy-free)

Glazed Orange Almond Muffins (dairy-free + vegan option)

Yield: 20 Cookies

Orange Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies

The perfect dark chocolate cookies, loaded with dark chocolate chunks and lots of fresh orange zest! Crispy at the edges and chewy in the middle, these rich, citrus-y cookies make for a delicious chocolate treat!

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

1/2 cup vegan butter, softened (or solid coconut oil)
1/2 cup coconut sugar
6 Tbsp brown sugar
1 large egg, room temp
1 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
6 Tbsp Dutch process cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/4 cup chopped dairy-free dark chocolate or chocolate chips
Zest of 2 large oranges (+ extra for topping, if desired)

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Bring your eggs to room temperature by placing them in a glass of warm water for around 10 minutes.
In a large bowl, beat together the vegan butter and sugars. Beat in the egg and then the vanilla; set aside.
In a medium bowl, sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Whisk together until uniform in color. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and use a large wooden spoon or spatula to mix until nearly combined. Stir in 1 cup of the chopped chocolate and the orange zest.
Scoop dough balls 1.5 Tbsp in size. Top each dough ball with extra chopped chocolate (you should have 1/4 cup remaining for this purpose). Bake 6-8 cookies at a time at 350°F for 5-7 minutes.
Top the baked cookies with more orange zest (optional) and enjoy warm OR allow the cookies to cool completely on the baking sheet (since these cookies are thin + have pools of chocolate, they do not transfer well to a cooling rack). If you need to use the baking sheet again, I recommend waiting 5 minutes and then carefully lifting the entire piece of parchment paper (with the cookies still on it) to another surface to cool. Be sure your baking sheet is cool before re-using for more dough balls.
Store leftovers (once completely cool - when the chocolate pools are set) in an airtight container at room temperature.

Notes

For vegan cookies: replace the egg with 1 flax egg (1 Tbsp flaxseed meal + 3 Tbsp water, mix and allow to thicken for 5 minutes)

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Triple Chocolate Inside Out Cookies (DF)

December 2, 2019 by Rachael Ng 2 Comments

Since giving up dairy (and subsequently chocolate with milk in it!) a couple of years ago, I’ve become really good at searching out milk-free chocolates. This means that I’ve grown accustom to the taste of some very dark chocolate since those are the ones least likely to contain milk. I remember going on the hunt for a vegan white chocolate around the holidays last year, and the only thing I could find was a bag of super expensive (for me, this is anything over $5) white chocolate chips. Nope. Not worth the money. After all, white chocolate isn’t even really chocolate. It’s made with cocoa butter and contains no chocolate solids!

I’d recently been thinking of doing an “inside out” type of cookie – chocolate cookie dough with white chocolate chips – and totally lucked out when I found a bag of Nestle white chocolate chips without milk! Yes! This is in no way sponsored, but Nestle now has a line of allergen-friendly chocolate chips, including white chocolate morsels! A huge win for those of us avoiding dairy products! And I found them at my local Wal-Mart. A bit pricey, but totally exciting and worth it for a white chocolate splurge!

These cookies are basically a chocolate version of my favorite Soft & Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies. I simply added cocoa powder and tons of white chocolate chips to get that traditional “inside out” cookie. You’ll use melted butter and a bit of starch to up the chew factor of these cookies – I actually found them to be softer the day after baking them! Just be sure you don’t over bake these babies, which is easy to do. They will look under baked, but that’s when you want to take them out of the oven! Your white chocolate chips may even begin to brown a bit (as mine did) and then you’ll know it’s definitely time to take the cookies out!

Some of the ingredients I love for this recipe:

Melted vegan butter gives these cookies ultimate chewiness! We’re talking soft-the-next-day chewy, so don’t skip the melting step!

Coconut sugar is my go-to sweetener for most of my baked goods. It’s low GI, unrefined, and makes for a great replacement for regular granulated sugar. Don’t let the name fool you – it tastes nothing like coconut.

Brown sugar brings moisture to these cookies by adding that little bit of molasses that’s mixed into all brown sugars. Feel free to use light or dark brown sugar (dark has more molasses).

Arrowroot starch also helps to make these cookies chewy. If you have corn starch on hand, that will work, too!

Yield: 16 Cookies

Triple Chocolate Inside Out Cookies

Sweet and chewy "inside out" chocolate cookies filled with both semisweet and white chocolate chips!

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Additional Time 3 hours

Total Time 4 hours

Ingredients

1/2 cup (1 stick) vegan butter, softened
1/2 cup coconut sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 large egg, room temp
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup + 2 Tbsp unbleached all-purpose flour
6 Tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp arrowroot (or corn) starch
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup dairy-free semisweet or dark chocolate chips
1/2 cup dairy-free white chocolate chips

Instructions

Bring your egg to room temperature by placing it in a glass of warm water for around 10 minutes.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the melted vegan butter, sugars, egg, and vanilla extract; set aside.
In a large bowl, sift the flour and cocoa powder. Then whisk in the baking soda, baking powder, arrowroot starch, and salt until flour and cocoa are well combined.
Add liquid ingredients to dry and gently mix using a large spatula or wooden spoon until a few flour streaks remaining. Combine the semisweet and white chocolate chips, and then stir 3/4 cup of the mixed chips into the dough. Set extra chips aside and cover and refrigerate the dough for 2 hours.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Scoop dough balls 2 Tbsp in size and then roll them smooth, making them a little taller than they are wide (see photos in this post) and placing them on the parchment-lined baking sheet. Using the remaining 1/4 cup of mixed chocolate chips, press extra chips into the tops and sides of the dough "balls", reshaping as necessary. Refrigerate dough balls for 1 hour.
Preheat your oven to 325°F and line another baking sheet with parchment paper. Add 6 dough balls to your prepared baking sheet and bake at 325°F for 6-8 minutes or until cookies have spread and look a bit puffy - take them out when they still look a bit under baked.
Allow cookies to cool for 2 minutes on the baking sheet before moving to a wire rack to cool completely. If your cookies come out of the oven a little misshapen, you can gently (and carefully - they'll be hot!) use your fingers or a small spoon to press the edges in to make the cookies more round.
Continue baking the rest of the cookies, making sure you let your baking sheet(s) cool down to room temperature before adding the dough balls.
Store any cooled leftovers in an airtight container at room temperature.

Notes

Chilling the dough is super important for the right cookie shape and texture.
I haven't tried these cookies with any alternative ingredients (GF flour, regular butter, etc), so I can't vouch for how they would turn out
Feel free to mix up your chocolate chips, adding dark chocolate chips, chunks, or simply adding only white chocolate!

Salted Chocolate Rye Cookies (DF)

December 4, 2018 by Rachael Ng 11 Comments

Okay, friends, we’re a few days into my 12 Days of Dairy-Free Cookies, and I could not be more excited to share these cookies with you!! The whole reason I started posting food to Instagram is because I was in search of good dairy-free recipes that were lower in sugar or utilized a low GI sugar like coconut sugar. These cookies are delicious. I brought my leftovers (after testing and shooting) to Thanksgiving, and they flew off the counter! I’d wished I’d baked more!

These cookies are full of chocolate. No cocoa powder needed here, because you’re going to use a whole 1/2 pound of chocolate for these. These cookies are rich, fudgy, and so satisfying, especially when they’re warmed up or fresh from the oven. I added a little bit of instant coffee to amp up the chocolate flavor – you won’t taste coffee at all! If you have espresso powder on hand, that will work, too.

I used three whole tablespoons of dough per cookie, because I really wanted a thick cookie. If you follow the chilling instructions below, I believe you’ll have no problem with too much spread. I like my cookies fudgy, so I only baked them until the outside was set. You want the middle to look under-baked when you pull them out of the oven. Your cookies should come out thick, ultra fudgy, and seriously irresistible!

Some of the ingredients I like for this recipe:

Semi-sweet chocolate brings lots of chocolate flavor (duh) and fudgy texture to this cookies. I chose semi-sweet to help balance the richness of these cookies. I don’t recommend any chocolate higher than 54%.

Instant coffee granules add depth to the chocolate flavor. It’s totally optional, so don’t fret if don’t have any on hand.

Eggs are necessary for the brownie-like texture of these brownies. I do not recommend any egg replacements as I have tried them in regular brownies with no luck.

Coconut sugar is my favorite, low GI sugar! It’s a great 1:1 replacement for granulated white sugar, and it tastes nothing like coconut. Plus, it’s unrefined.

Dark rye flour is a 100% whole grain flour complete with all the nutritious brand and germ. It’s rich in dietary fiber and is a source of antioxidants and nutrients.

Yield: 11 Cookies

Salted Chocolate Rye Cookies

Rich and indulgent brownie-like cookies loaded with semi-sweet chocolate! A thick and fudgy cookie perfect for any chocolate lover!

Prep Time 45 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Additional Time 1 hour

Total Time 2 hours 10 minutes

Ingredients

1/2 pound dairy-free semi-sweet chocolate, chopped
2 Tbsp coconut oil
1/2 tsp instant coffee granules (optional)
2 large eggs, room temp
1/2 cup coconut sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/8 tsp salt
1/3 cup dark rye flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 cup dairy-free chocolate chips, divided
Sea salt flakes to sprinkle

Instructions

Bring your eggs to room temperature by placing them in a glass of warm water for around 10 minutes. Using the double boiler method, melt your chocolate: add an inch of water to a saucepan on medium heat. Set a heatproof bowl on the pan, making sure it doesn’t touch the water. Add the chopped chocolate, coconut oil, and instant coffee. Stir frequently until chocolate and oil are totally melted. Remove bowl from pan and set aside to cool down.
Meanwhile, in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, add the eggs and coconut sugar. Whisk on medium speed until mixture becomes thick and light brown in color, about 5-10 minutes. Whisk in the vanilla and salt.
Gently fold the melted chocolate into the egg/sugar mixture until totally incorporated - this will take more than a few seconds. Fold in the flour and baking powder until nearly combined, leaving some flour streaks. Mix in 3/4 cup of the chocolate chips. Cover and refrigerate the dough for an least an hour.
After chilling for an hour, check to see how firm your dough is. It should be sticky but firm enough to scoop and roll. If you've refrigerated your dough for longer than 1 hour, you may need to let it sit at room temperature for 30 minutes before scooping.
Preheat your oven to 325°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Roll dough balls (six at a time) 3 Tbsp in size and place on your parchment-lined baking sheet. This will be messy - I've found it's easiest to scoop six dough balls then roll each one and place on the parchment paper.
Press extra chocolate chips into the tops of each dough ball (using the remaining 1/4 cup of chips). Bake at 325°F for 10-12 minutes or until cookies look nearly set in the middle – you want them to look a little under-baked when you take them out. Immediately sprinkle your cookies with flaky sea salt. Allow cookies to rest on the baking sheet for 2 minutes before moving to a cooling rack.
Once cookies have cooled, you can store leftovers in an airtight container at room temperature.

Notes

It's normal for the dough to be sticky, even after refrigerating for an hour. This is what you want for proper spreading!
Your eggs must be room temperature in order for them to whip up properly with the sugar.
I like to use the Pound Plus 54% "Dark Chocolate" bar from Trader Joe's in this recipe. For about $5 USD you get a whole pound of chocolate!
Cookies can be refrigerated or frozen ahead of time. If frozen, allow them to thaw in their container. Then, before serving, pop them in the oven for a few minutes to warm them up again!
Recipe adapted from Food & Wine

double chocolate cookies

Orange Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Orange Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies

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More orange recipes:

Orange Loaf with Almond Buttercream (dairy-free + vegan option)

Grain-Free Orange Brownies (dairy-free)

Soft & Chewy Orange Sugar Cookies (dairy-free)

Glazed Orange Almond Muffins (dairy-free + vegan option)

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