Orange Sugar Cookie Sandwiches With Chocolate Rum Ganache Recipes

ORANGE CHOCOLATE SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• Pour milk in a saucepan and warm it up over medium heat so it's hot but not boiling. Then remove it from the heat.
• In a mixing bowl put chocolate chips and powdered sugar, and pour over the hot milk.
• Using a whisk or a spatula, mix it together until smooth consistency.
• Cover with plastic wrap and let it sit on a counter for a couple of hours.
• Using a standing mixer, beat room temperature butter with sugar really well, so it becomes fluffy and pale in color.
• Add an egg, orange zest, and vanilla extract and mix until combined and smooth consistency.
• Mix dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, and salt) together in a separate bowl, then add to the wet ingredients in two batches. Mix everything until well combined but don't overmix.
• When done, you can lightly knead the dough, making a ball, wrap in a plastic wrap and refrigerate from 1-2 hours to overnight.
• When you roll out the dough it might be a bit sticky. You can use a little bit of flour to prevent it from sticking to a roller or a counter. However, I have a different trick that always helps me. Put the dough between two sheets of parchment paper, then roll over the parchment paper about 1/4-inch thick.
• After you cut out the cookies and put them on the baking sheet, put the sheet with the cookies back in the fridge for 10 minutes to chill.
• Bake the cookies at 350°F for 9-10 minutes until the bottom gets a very light golden color.
• To assemble, scoop a tablespoon of chocolate ganache on a flat side of a cookie and sandwich with the other cookie.

ORANGE-CHOCOLATE GANACHE

Steps:

• Zest orange with a microplane, add to heavy cream and place it into the sauce pan.
• Heat the cream in a sauce pan over medium heat stirring constantly untill it comes to a boil. take off heat.
• add hot cream to chocolate in a medium bowl, stirring untill all chocolate has melted, add butter at once, and stir untill melted.
• chill untill thickened to spread on cakes, brownies, or cupcakes. pour over cakes or dip cupcakes while still liquid. chill untill firm.

ORANGE SUGAR COOKIE SANDWICHES WITH CHOCOLATE RUM GANACHE

Steps:

• For the cookies: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the sugar and butter together until fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, until the mixture is smooth. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, and mix in the orange zest. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together, and add to the butter mixture, mixing until just combined. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• Roll the dough to 1/4-inch thick and cut out cookies with a cookie cutter (about 20 large cookies). Place the cookies on the prepared baking sheet, and sprinkle the tops with sugar. Bake just until the edges start to brown, 8 to 14 minutes, depending on the size of the cookies. Cool the cookies completely.
• For the ganache: Place the chocolate in a medium bowl. Bring the heavy cream to a boil and pour over the chocolate to melt. Stir until shiny and smooth, then add rum to taste. Mix until incorporated, and then rest the ganache until firm. Transfer to a piping bag and pipe the ganache onto half of the cookies. Press the second half of the cookies onto the ganache-covered cookies to make cookie sandwiches.