White and Dark Chocolate Blood Orange Cookies
I’m not going to lie to you. The stuff I wrote above about same-sex marriage and Maurice Sendak has nothing to do with food, much less these cookies. But this is a food blog and you come to my blog for recipes (or so I tell myself. How many of you actually make my recipes? Oh good, thank you, all three of you!). I could come up with a cutesy story of how this recipe uses white chocolate and dark chocolate, symbolizing interracial marriage, a legal issue that same sex marriage is often compared to. But even I’m not that tacky (white and dark chocolate? I think that might border on racist). Heck, I could even stretch the already thread thin metaphor and say the addition of the blood orange is me throwing some fruit into the mix, and we all know that fruit is slang for homosexual. But I’m not going to pander to you. These cookies are damn good cookies. They have nothing to do with what I wrote above. Enjoy them or not. Just make sure that the next time you have a chance to support same sex marriage you do. If you don’t, I’ll stop giving you recipes. And all three of you will be very very sad.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 10 of 11 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 10 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Chocolate | 1 oz (28g) semisweet | 155 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Orange | 1 medium (131g) | 62 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp ground (2.6g) | 6 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Semolina | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups (285 g or 2 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter
- 2 medium blood oranges
- 2 1/4 cups (515 g) dark brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 2 cups (300 g) white whole wheat flour
- 1 3/4 (240 g) superfine semolina flour
- 1/2 cup (65 g) whole milk powder
- 8 oz (225 g) semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 8 oz (225 g) white chocolate chips
- coarse sea salt