Orange Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ready In: 22 mins
Yields: 60-72 cookies
Ingredients
- 2 1⁄4 cups sifted flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup vegetable shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
- 1 teaspoon orange rind, grated
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
ORANGE ICING
- 2 cups icing sugar, sifted
- 3 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 teaspoon orange juice concentrate, thawed
- 1 teaspoon orange rind, grated
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350*. Combine flour and salt. Beat shortening, sugar and cream cheese until well-mixed. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Add the orange juice concentrate and the rind. Blend in the flour and salt. Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Drop dough by teaspoonfuls, 2" apart on lightly greased cookie sheets.
- Bake @ 350* for 10-12 minutes, until light brown around the edges. Cool.
- ICING:.
- Slowly beat icing sugar into the cream cheese until well blended. Stir in the orange juice and orange rind. Ice the cookies.
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