Chocolate Chip Orange Cookies Recipe

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Better Baking Bible

Chocolate and orange all in one cookie sounds like a happily married combination! These chocolate chip orange cookies are infused with fresh orange juice and orange zest mixed with delicious dark chocolate and vanilla aroma… can you really ask for more in a cookie?

Last weekend, I tried to come up with something different other than my weekend staple chocolate oatmeal cookies. I wanted something fruity, but also infused with chocolate since everyone LOVES chocolate! After coming back from my local Lidl with a whole bucket of fresh oranges, I started to feel a little guilty while throwing away the juicy peels. That really got me onto something – orange zest! Why waste orange peels and why not add orange zest into chocolate chip cookies?

These cookies are loaded with orange zest and freshly squeezed orange juice. They taste like a chocolate chip cookie but even BETTER. Making orange one of the main ingredients is an ingenious way to add a little kick to your recipes. I’ll definitely consider this for future cookies and even cakes or creams I will be making… stay tuned. 🙂

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Chocolate Chip Orange Cookies

Yields 24

Soft chocolate chip cookies infused with fresh orange zest and vanilla.

Ingredients:

1 cup butter
¾ cup brown sugar
zest of one orange
2 tbsp brewed coffee
1 tbsp ground flaxseed
1 tbsp corn starch
2 tsp vanilla extract
freshly squeeze juice of half an orange
1 cup + 4 tbsp whole wheat flour
1 cup + 4 tbsp white all purpose flour
1 ½ tsp baking soda
1 ½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 cup chopped dark chocolate (or chocolate chips)

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a large mixing bowl, mix together butter and brown sugar. Add in orange zest, coffee, flax, cornstarch, juice from half an orange, vanilla extract, and vinegar. Mix until all the ingredients are well combined. I find that mixing with my hands works best to combine all the ingredients!
In a separate bowl, combine flours, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Stir together until incorporated.
Mix together the wet mixture (from step 1) with the dry mixture (from step 3). Add in chocolate chips and combine all the ingredients together.
Drop rounded spoonful’s onto cookie sheet and bake cookies for about 15 minutes or until slightly golden.
Remove from oven and transfer to a cooling rack to cool off completely.

Chocolate Rum Salami with Petite Beurre Cookies, Dark Chocolate, and Raisins

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Better Baking Bible

Chocolate salami is originally an Italian dessert popular across Europe that looks like a real salami, but it’s definitely not a meat product! This sweet salami is made from dark chocolate, broken petite beurre cookies, butter, raisins, eggs, and a bit of rum. The term “salami” simply comes from it’s physical resemblance. The chocolate is formed into a long cylinder and sliced to serve just like a real salami! The bright bits of petite beurre cookies resemble the white flecks of fat seen in salami.

This chocolate salami is a fast-to-make no-bake dessert that tastes delicious, and freezes well which means you can easily prepare it ahead of time. It looks impressive and complicated to make, although its easy and tastes absolutely delicious.

This recipe makes about 4 chocolate salamis, I previously made another version here, although I believe this version turned out much better. The store-bought wafer sheets you need for the recipe should look like the ones seen here. These can be bought anywhere in Europe, but can also be bought at European supermarkets in America.

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Chocolate Rum Salami

Yields 4

Dark chocolate, raisins, and rum rolled in wafer sheets.

Ingredients:

200 g powdered sugar
400 g unsalted butter at room temperature
4 wafer sheets (store bought)
80 g dark cooking chocolate
400 g Petite Beurre cookies (crushed into tiny bits)
80 g raisins
4 eggs
2 tbsp rum

Instructions:

Soften your wafer sheets by placing them between wet towels (not soaking wet). Let them stay like this while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
Mix eggs and powdered sugar in a pot of a double boiler. Add butter and chocolate and cook on a double boiler until it turns into the consistency of pudding.
Remove from stove and mix in rum, crushed cookies, and raisins.
Evenly spread the mixture over the softened wafer cookies and roll lengthwise into a salami.
Allow the salami to dry for a few hours, then roll up in aluminum foil and place in the fridge to chill before serving. You can also place it in the freezer and slice it frozen whenever you want to serve, since they defrost very fast.

The Best Chocolate Cake With Vanilla Cream + Ferrero Rocher Style Decorated!

Posted on December 23, 2015 by Better Baking Bible

Looking for a rich, delicious chocolate cake recipe? This is the absolute BEST recipe for chocolate cake I have ever made! I have tried and tested hundreds of recipes for chocolate cake and none of them come close to this one. I found the original recipe to this chocolate cake on My Baking Addiction. After a few alterations and swapping the chocolate cream for my staple secret vanilla cake filling, as well as decorating the cake with chocolate shavings + my home grown chopped walnuts, my holiday ferror rocher style cake was born!

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The Best Chocolate Cake With Vanilla Cream + Ferrero Rocher Style Decorated!

For Cake:

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1 ¾ cups unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tsp baking soda
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp rum
pinch of salt
2 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup strong black coffee
½ cup vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
Chocolate shavings to decorate
Chopped walnuts to decorate

For Cream (NEW and Improved Recipe):

2 tbsp butter
3 tbsp flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup milk
1 egg or 2 egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla

To Make Cake:

Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour two 9” round baking pans.
In a mixing bowl using an electric mixer, combine sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt until combined.
Add eggs, buttermilk, rum, coffee, oil, and vanilla. Beat on medium for 2 mins and then pour evenly into prepared pans.
Bake for 30-35 mins or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool for 10 mins, remove to wire rack and transfer to the freezer to cool completely.

To Make Cream:

Melt butter over direct heat, add flour and stir until frothy.
Remove from heat and add sugar and salt, then the milk a little at a time.
Blend thoroughly and cook over boiling water until thick. Use a double boiler to do this and stir constantly to avoid clumping. Beat egg or egg yolks in a separate bowl with rotary beater until foamy.
Slowly drizzle and pour the hot mixture over the egg, stirring with a rotary beater constantly. Pour the mixture back in the double boiler and cook again over boiling water with constant stirring, 3 or 4 minutes.
Cover and cool, stirring occasionally, when cool add the vanilla and then spread the cream onto the cake layers.

To Assemble:

***Make sure your cake layers are completely cooled or else the cream will just melt off and become sloppy!

Evenly spread vanilla cream on one cake layer and place the second layer on top. Frost the entire cake including the top and sides.
Sprinkle chopped walnuts on the sides of the cake and then sprinkle the chocolate shavings on top. Voila!

Madarica Kolac – Croatian No-Bake Layer Cake Recipe

Posted on November 21, 2015 by Better Baking Bible

Loaded with chocolate, made in bite-sized pieces, and even better – no baking! If you love all of the above, you’re going to be drooling over “Madarica”, a traditional Croatian dessert that is simple to make, yet tastes VERY delicious. Plus, it looks super impressive which makes it the perfect dessert to prepare for a holiday coffee get-together or an after dinner dessert.

Madarica has thin layers of chocolate and store-bought crust which make this delicious cake a year-round favorite dessert! This cake is easy to make if you are in luck and can buy the store bought crust by Podravka like the one seen here. This cake is called no-bake because you can purchase the already made layers. If you can’t buy the crust anywhere, no worries – we have included the recipe below!

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Madarica Cake Recipe

A traditional Croatian chocolate cake with thin layers of chocolate and crust.

Ingredients:

For Cake Crust

* If you can’t buy Podravka Madarica Cake Crust, then use this recipe

5 ½ cups all purpose flour
2 egg whites
180g sour cream
1 tsp baking powder
1 ¼ cup granulated sugar
¾ cup unsalted butter, softened

For Cake Filling

4 cups milk
5 tbsp all-purpose flour
5 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla sugar
1.5 cups sugar
50g dark chocolate
¾ cup unsalted butter, softened
1 tbsp rum

For Cake Glaze

100g dark chocolate
3 tbsp vegetable oil
4 tbsp unsalted butter

Instructions:

To Make Cake Layers

In a mixing bowl using an electric mixer, beat together the butter, sugar, egg whites, and sour cream until light and fluffy. Gradually add in flour and baking powder and knead to form a dough.
Preheat oven to 356 F. Separate dough into 6 equal parts and roll out as thin as possible into rectangles on a piece of parchment paper. Transfer to a baking sheet and place another piece of parchment paper on top (to avoid burning the top) of each layer and bake each layer for 8 minutes. The layers must not turn golden, they must stay pale!

To Make Cake Filling

On medium heat, bring milk, sugar, and vanilla to a boil. Separate one part of the milk and whisk in cocoa and flour. Add the mixture into the boiling milk and add in the dark chocolate, always stirring until thickened. Remove from heat and stir in butter and rum. Cover with tin foil until cooled.

To Make Cake Glaze

In a pot over medium heat, melt chocolate with butter and oil and whisk together until combined.

To Assemble

Place the first cake layer onto a baking tray and evenly spread one part of filling. Cover with second layer and repeat until finished, making sure the last layer is a dough layer. Pour the hot glaze over the whole cake and transfer cake to fridge to chill overnight. The next day, cut cake into small rectangles and serve!

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Easy Post Holiday Leftover Recipes for Hog Roast

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Better Baking Bible

Put your holiday leftovers to good use with our deliciously easy ideas!

It’s no secret that a great party includes a delicious hog roast. This is the kind of food great for a party that smells great, tastes fantastic and of course, it looks spectacular when you are cooking it. Most people love a hog roast and it’s easy to see why!

You can make your own roast at home with modern spittingpig hogroast machines that can cook a whole hog or other roasted meats easily. Load up the meat onto the spit, turn it on and voila – it doesn’t get any easier! A roasted hog goes a long way, which means lots of meat left over. There is no need for any of it to go to waste with these easy solutions:

Let Your Guests Take Some Home

Slice the meat up, wrap it up in foil, and send your guests home with delicious leftovers for the next day. If you made stuffing, send them home with this too! From a food safety point of view, make sure they are keeping leftover pork in the fridge, to keep them safe during the holidays.

Cold Pork Salad and Sandwiches

Another great alternative is to slice up the leftover meat and serve it later as part of a salad. Alternatively, you can serve it sliced with a stack of bread, wraps or buns alongside some butter, a selection of sauces and maybe some stuffing. Your guests can make themselves a delicious sandwich if they get the nibbles later in the evening.

Pulled Pork Pizza

Pulled pork makes a wonderful pizza topping to replace pepperoni, bacon, or chicken. You can shred the pork and mix it with thyme, Taleggio, and lemon-dressed rocket pizza dressing. Fast and delicious!

Chinese Pork Wraps

My favourites are Chinese style wraps; just take a handful of pulled pork from the freezer let it defrost. Warm it through quickly in a frying pan with a little oil and a pinch of five spices them serve it with Hoi-sin sauce in wraps with sliced spring onions and cucumbers. If you want to save on calories, you can also make lettuce wraps which are DELICIOUS without the guilt!

Curries, Goulashes and other Beautiful Dishes

Pork in chunks is fantastic in curries, stews and goulashes. It makes wonderful pies and pasties. You just need to freeze it in a way that makes it easy for you to grab a portion and defrost only what you need.

The great thing about this style of party food is that you can dress it up or dress it down. Serve it simply with applesauce in a bun or serve it more formally as part of a roast dinner. Whatever is leftover, just make sure to use your imagination and combine it with your favourite foods. Pizza, wraps, salad, and goulash, taste a whole lot better with a dash of home roasted pork!

Old Fashioned Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Better Baking Bible

I have been searching for that old fashioned oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe for ages! This recipe brings me back to the good ol’ days and I’ve finally mastered every pinch of ingredient to create a crunchy yet still soft, fiber loaded, super filling, oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. This recipe will be my staple cookie to have in the pantry as it can keep for a few weeks in an airtight container. I’ve added in a dash of flax seed to make it even more healthier, as well as Bob’s Red Mill Muesli, coconut oil, cinnamon, and a few other surprises!

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Old Fashioned Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Yields 30

An old fashioned recipe for the most delicious crunchy yet soft oatmeal chocolate chip cookies bound to bring back childhood memories…

Ingredients:

1 c (100g) instant oats
1 cup Bobs Red Mill Muesli
1.5 c whole wheat flour
3 tsp baking powder
3 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp flax seed
4 tbsp coconut oil or unsalted butter, melted
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 c agave syrup (or 1 cup honey or 1 cup of white or brown sugar + approx. ¼ cup water)
1 ¼ cup chopped dark chocolate

Instructions:

Place all ingredients in a large mixing bowl and mix well with a wooden spoon until combined.
Form the dough into round balls and press onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Bake at 325 F for about 10-15 minutes or until slightly golden at the top. Remove from oven and transfer to baking sheet to cool completely.

Moist and Soft Apple Chunk Banana Bunt Cake

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Better Baking Bible

A bunt cake that melts in your mouth! Inspired by the fall season just around the corner, this apple chunk banana bunt cake is a spin-off of regular banana bread. I am a huge fan of banana bread and so is everyone in my family – we’ve tried all the combinations you could think of except spicing it up with apples! All I basically did was follow my classic banana bread recipe I posted here and added one large chopped apple to the mix (I also omitted the chocolate). The apples made the bread super duper moist and down right addicting. Baking it in a bunt pan and sprinkling powdered sugar on-top gave it a little more oomph. Here’s the recipe once again:

Quick tip: Because of the apples, I baked my bread about 10-15 minutes longer than usual because it was really moist. I also covered the top with tin foil near the end to give the insides time to bake and to prevent the top edges from burning!

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Moist and Soft Apple Chunk Banana Bunt Cake

Ingredients:

1 large apple, chopped into small chunks
2 cups All purpose flour
1 cup fine oatmeal
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
1 tbsp cinnamon
1/4 cup oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 ripe bananas
2 cups water/yogurt mixture (container of 200g plain yogurt mixed with water and 1.5tbsp of vinegar)

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 180 C and greese a loaf pan.
Mix together flour, oatmeal, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
Mix yogurt/water mixture together with oil, mashed bananas, and vanilla extract. Combine with the dry ingredients and mix until all lumps disappear. Now fold in the chopped apples.
Pour into loaf pan and bake for about 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

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Chocolate Chip Orange Cookies Recipe

Chocolate and orange all in one cookie sounds like a happily married combination! These chocolate chip orange cookies are infused with fresh orange juice and orange zest mixed with delicious dark chocolate and vanilla aroma… can you really ask for more in a cookie?

Chocolate Chip Orange Cookies

Chocolate Rum Salami with Petite Beurre Cookies, Dark Chocolate, and Raisins

Chocolate Rum Salami

The Best Chocolate Cake With Vanilla Cream + Ferrero Rocher Style Decorated!

Madarica Kolac – Croatian No-Bake Layer Cake Recipe

Madarica Cake Recipe

Easy Post Holiday Leftover Recipes for Hog Roast

Old Fashioned Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Old Fashioned Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Moist and Soft Apple Chunk Banana Bunt Cake

Moist and Soft Apple Chunk Banana Bunt Cake