John Myers
Christmas Cookies: Chocolate and Orange Croissants
The perfect christmas cookies: chocolate and orange croissants recipe with a picture and simple step-by-step instructions.
- 220 g Flour
- 100 g Butter
- 100 g Powdered sugar
- 4 tbsp Cocoa powder
- 2 Pc. Egg yolk
- 2 tbsp Milk
- 1 Msp Cinammon
- 1 Pc. Organic orange, the zest of it
- 4 drops Orange flavor
- Dark chocolate couverture
- Sieve the powdered sugar before use to avoid lumps. Put the flour, cinnamon, cocoa powder, powdered sugar and butter in a bowl. Grate into fine crumbs with your hands. Add egg yolk, milk, orange peel and flavor. Knead everything quickly to a smooth dough.
- Wrap in cling film and put in the fridge for approx. 30 – 60 minutes. Then shape the dough into a long roll (approx. 2 cm in diameter) and divide each into 1 cm pieces. Shape these pieces into croissants.
- Place side by side on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake in the preheated oven at 180 degrees (top / bottom heat) on the middle rack for about 10 – 12 minutes.
- Then take out and place the croissants with the baking paper on a wire rack to cool. Dip the cooled croissants with the tips in liquid chocolate couverture and then let them dry.
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