Terry’s Chocolate Orange Cookies!
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Delicious moist & crunchy cookies full to the brim with chunks of Terry’s chocolate orange – heavenly Terry’s chocolate orange cookies!
Chocolate orange bakes
I have ALWAYS adored chocolate + orange flavouring together – especially Terry’s chocolate orange – it sounds like an odd combination at first if you haven’t tried it, but once you have, you will never forget it. It is genuinely my favourite chocolate.
I can’t stop making chocolate orange themed bakes… genuinely, my chocolate orange layer cake, and my chocolate orange cupcakes are always well received, and every Christmas I have to make my no-bake chocolate orange cheesecake and everyone always adores it. However, I went to the supermarket recently and picked up a bag of Terry’s chocolate orange cookies to buy, I realised I might as well bake them at home myself.
Cookies
As you all know by now, I am utterly obsessed with cookie baking. My NYC Chocolate Chip Cookies! have always been incredibly popular, as well as my Chocolate Orange NYC Cookies but these classic terry’s chocolate orange cookies are one of my absolute favourites.
These cookies are always perfect to bake around Christmas time, during the summer, or when you are just craving something utterly delicious. The perfect part about them is that the oils in the chocolate orange that create the flavouring, makes the cookie bake perfectly every single time – I have honestly never had a problem with these.
No chill cookie dough
The wonderful part about this cookie dough, is that it doesn’t need chilling. It’s a cookie dough where all you have to do is cream the butter and sugars, whack in the egg and a little flavouring, whack in the dry ingredients, shove in all the chocolate orange ever, and bake. Most other recipes I’ve seen require chilling first, and these beauties don’t need it.
Not needing chilling means you can get to my favourite cookies ever, quicker. Honestly, these are genuinely my favourite cookie recipe I have, partly because of the Terry’s chocolate orange obsession I have going on, but that’s not entirely it. I genuinely just think the actual cookie is insane! It’s such a wonderful mix of chewy, gooey, and delicious. If you bake it for longer, it’ll get crunchy too.
My favourite
This recipe has been on my blog for quite a while now, and as I write this after updating the images in May 2024, it remains to be my favourite cookie. I know the recipe off by heart and have experimented with it a few times, resulting in recipes such as my Toblerone cookies, and my M&M cookies. I’ve also created a cookie bar version of these because I just adore them THAT much.
Honestly, imagine baking these, and serving them with a scoop of my Terry’s chocolate orange ice cream, or having a Terry’s themed party and devouring these and my other 15 themed recipes as well. Maybe I love it too much, but honestly, if you try these you will understand my pure and utter love. Enjoy the recipe!
Tips & Tricks
- You don’t have to add the chocolate pieces on top, you can include it all in the dough, but I love having melted bits of chocolate on top of a cookie – especially if I am serving them warm with a drink, such a gooey chocolate treat!
- If you don’t have Terry’s chocolate orange where you are, you could try using milk chocolate with a bit more orange zest, or even a bit of orange flavouring which I often do!
- I use this cookie scoop in this recipe
- I use these large trays
- These cookies will last for 5-7+ days, at room temperature
- These cookies can freeze 3+ months
- Recipe updated May 2024 – only change was swapping 175g of self raising flour to 250g of plain flour. The original recipe is still delicious, but the cookies spread a bit more.
Terry's Chocolate Orange Cookies!
Ingredients
- 125 g unsalted butter
- 100 g granulated sugar
- 100 g light brown sugar
- 1 medium egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
- Zest of 1 large orange (or 1tsp orange extract)
- 25 g cocoa powder
- 225 g plain flour
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 250 g Terry's chocolate orange (chopped)
- 16 Segments Terry's chocolate orange
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 190ºc/170ºc fan and line 2-3 large baking trays with parchment paper
- Beat butter and sugars together until combined
- Add egg and vanilla, and orange zest and mix
- Add cocoa powder, plain flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, salt and mix
- Add chopped chocolate orange pieces and mix into the dough
- Portion the cookie dough into cookies, I use a 5cm scoop, and place onto the trays. I do 6 per large tray to allow room for the cookie to spread.
- Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes – remove and add a segment to each cookie, and then leave the cookies to cool on the trays.
Notes
- You don’t have to add the chocolate pieces on top, you can include it all in the dough, but I love having melted bits of chocolate on top of a cookie – especially if I am serving them warm with a drink, such a gooey chocolate treat!
- If you don’t have Terry’s chocolate orange where you are, you could try using milk chocolate with a bit more orange zest, or even a bit of orange flavouring which I often do!
- I use this cookie scoop in this recipe
- I use these large trays
- These cookies will last for 5-7+ days, at room temperature
- These cookies can freeze 3+ months
- Recipe updated May 2024 - only change was swapping 175g of self raising flour to 250g of plain flour. The original recipe is still delicious, but the cookies spread a bit more.
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Hi Jane,
If i wanted to make these without a chocolate base would i just sub the cocoa powder for 25g more of self raising flour?
Yes! x
Hi Jane, do you think I could substitute the milk chocolate orange for white chocolate orange. Thanks xx
Yes! As it’s just chunks being added you can use whatever! X
Made these cookies today and they turned out brilliantly! A perfect balance of crunchy around the edge and gooey in the middle. I used half self-raising and half plain flour (only because I ran out) and didn’t use the bicarbonate of soda (I didn’t have it) and they still turned out great. I did squish them down a bit too which made them into a perfect shape. Thank you for a fab recipe!
Absolutely delicious!!
Any advice for me as mines flattened out a bit more and didn’t look at chunky as yours. They look more smooth and flat? I used an ice cream scoop and followed the recipe and I have an oven thermometer so temperature was correct. I think I maybe should have chilled them a bit first and they might not have spread so much? Not sure, any ideas? They’re cooling down just now and I know they will taste good but I’d like them to look better!
Hiya – this depends as brands of ingredients and how you’ve mixed it can take an effect! I personally never chill this dough, but you can definitely try it if you want! x
I was craving something chocolatey and orange and I came across this recipe, I was a bit skeptical because not many times my baking goes right.
So then I got my ingredients ready but then I realised a) there wasn’t enough butter and b) I didn’t have brown sugar I only had demara sugar. So once again I was a bit worried about them however I went with my gut instincts and just went for it.
I made the mixture, (doubled it) and it was kinda cake like, thick cake batter but I let it chill in the fridge for around 20/30 minutes and then I took them out and put them straight in the oven. They rised a lot more than going wider but I wasn’t too bothered about it. I then took them out and quickly put choc pieces on top and let go in the oven for 1/2 minutes more. They were PERFECT.
You could really taste the orange in it and I was worried I didn’t put enough zest in, but it was fine!! They taste SO GOOD, I can’t believe they came out so good. My family loved them and were shocked I made something right for once ahah.
Thank you for this recipe, Jane 🙂
Hey can I put these in the fridge over night? And cook them in the morning
Yes definitely!!
Followed the recipe exactly, but they didn’t flatten out, they looked more like bulky cookies, rather then chewy. Still very tasty but do you recommend anything to help them be more chewy and flatter?
These cookies are meant to be soft in the middle and aren’t completely chewy – so if you want them flatter, you will want to squish them before baking rather than leaving in a scoop shape!
Hi there, this recipe looks great…should the brown sugar be the soft brown variety? Could I use caster sugar instead of granulated? Thanks
I generally don’t recommend caster sugar for cookies as it can make them spread more and have a different texture, but the light brown is soft yes.
I baked these for my boyfriend on valentine’s day as we weren’t doing gifts but thought i’d make something special! I loved these and he loved them! hands down the best cookie recipe I have used to date!! Recreated them with just a chopped up dark chocolate bar and it is also incredibly delicious!!! Thank you for this!! x
Hii Jane. This is my absolute favourite recipe from your website! I wanted to make these again but can’t seem to find brown sugar anywhere. Just wondered if using all granulated would make much of a difference? Thanks!
Hey! I would use the all granulated for sure! x
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Iv made so much of your stuff and everything has been a hit!!! Really made me love baking again
Hello, 3rd Christmas I’m wanting to make these but am really having issues with the conversion, We use the metric system in Canada and even when I try to google to convert I can have 4 different sites all telling me different measurements. Do you have a converted recipe at all??
Hello – sorry I’m not sure I understand.. the recipe is in grams already, and there is an ounces conversion button on the page as well?
Yes I’m looking for measurements in cups not oz or grams….
That’s not metric.. and I don’t measure in cups as it’s not accurate.
These cookies were amazing! So soft and full of flavour. Had so many compliments on them, would definitely make again 🙂 x
Will plant based butter work