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 can you freeze your cookies once they have been made? If so do you just let them defrost them they are good to go?Thank you
Yes, you can! and yes!
Love all your recipes. Curious, why are these cookies baked at fan 180 when most are 160?
Cookie recipes vary depending on what you do with them, a lot of my cookies are 180+
Hi! I will be making these today but dont have cocoa powder, i was wondering can i replace this with hot chocolate powder and if so would it be the same amount? Or would that not work?
Hiya! How did these turn out? Most of the time this does not work unfortunately. Hope this helps! x
Hi Jane. I love your cookie recipes and never had a problem before. they looked amazing in the oven but are raw even after 15 mins? do you know what I could have done wrong? The other recipes I do you just add the egg, plain flour etc but this one you have to wisk it; and it’s self raising. Could that be why they haven’t worked? Was looking forward to them:( xx
Cookies continue to bake whilst cooling, so they won’t be raw after that amount of time x
Hey Jane,
If I wanted to add some orange juice to add to the orange flavour how much would you add?
Thank you!
Hiya! If you want the orange to be stronger, I would just increase the amount of zest or extract. Hope this helps! x
I love these cookies!! Terrys chocolate is favourite! Just wondering if I wanted to just make the mixture and not bake them straight away, could I put the cookie dough balls in the freezer?
Yes absolutely, for up to 3 months! If baking from frozen just add 1-2 mins baking time. Hope this helps! x
My absolute favourite go to chocolate cookie recipe. They spread out thin on baking and then go gorgeously chewy as they cool while staying soft in the middle. Trick is to trust the timings and not bake them too long, take them out even if you dont think they look completely baked and the finish off on the hot tray. Often swap out the chocolate orange and zest for other flavours and types of chocolate, Peanut m&ms are my fave 😁
Absolutely love these, tried them today and they came out perfectly, they are certainly gooey inside and the flavour is stunning, my one question though is can i pop the remainder in the freezer for a future time? and if yes then what would be the best method in defrosting them?
Thank you for a great recipe!
Hey,
I made these but they didn’t form together in the oven, more of a soggy/gooey texture rather than a firm cookie base. I understand if they were just gooey in the middle.
What do you advise for next time?
This is strange – it may be that you needed a hotter oven temp!
Delicious and super easy as always!
Perfect recipe – just don’t forget the zest like I did 😂
They’re delicious but they spread out really flat like those other two people said, they don’t look anything like yours… You don’t know why? I’d love to figure it out!!
This could be a few things! Usually its the butter, or mixing method, or too much liquid(egg) for example! Honestly mine have never spread out that badly so its hard to say for certain!
Hi Jane!
Big fan of your cookies!
Just a quick one… what size ice cream scoop do you use ?
Thanks!
R
5cm!
Great recipe, would highly recommend, thank you! Just wondering, if we want to hear the cookies before eating them, is it best to microwave them? And how long for?
Yeah I usually microwave! About 15-30 seconds depending on your microwave x
Hi Jane!
Can’t wait to try these tomorrow!
Can you use an electric whisk for the whole process to mix all the ingredients or is it better by hand?
Thanks!
If the mixer has beater attachments you can definitely use that!
Made these last week and wrapped them up as Christmas gifts. So tasty. I added some orange juice too.
Made these this morning for my boyfriend’s mom I hope she likes them! They are a bit burnt around the edges but still soft in the middle so that’s all I care about 🙂
How much orange juice did you add please?
Hi Jane, all your recipes are amazing so Thank you for posting them.
A quick question regarding these cookies, I know you’ve said they can be frozen but do you bake from frozen, and if so, what temperature should they be cooked at and for how long?
Thank you 🙂
Yes they can be – same temp, and only a minute longer!
I love all of janes recipes I’m not a baker by any means but these recipes make my baking look great everyone always comments and I send everyone to her page!
Made these for the 1st time and i think iv never had a more delicious cookie!! The slightly crunchy edges balance out the soft gooey centres. Love!!!