Chocolate Chocolate Candied Orange Cookies

This is a fairly elaborate cookie recipe, but if you're like me and agree that good things come with time and effort, you won't mind. Alternatively, if you don't want to candy oranges, just add more chocolate chips to the cookie recipe instead. So I'll split this into 2 recipes. The orange recipe is borrowed, but the cookie recipe is made up.

Candied Oranges
Takes 35-40 minutes + drying time (mine took 1.5 days to fully dry)

1 orange
1/2 cup sugar

In a no-stick frying pan bring 1.5 cups of water to a boil. Add 1/2 cup white sugar and boil 5 more minutes. Slice your orange into 1/4 inch thick half moons and reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer for 30 minutes, flipping the orange slices occasionally. The sugar water will reduce to a thick syrup and all but disappear. The oranges should now have a thick glossy coating. Remove orange slices and lay them out on wax or parchment paper tO dry. If you like, or if the oranges don't seem coated enough to you, sprinkle some sugar on each side before drying. These should keep quite a long time if sealed away and can be eaten straight, added to desserts or used as garnish on cocktails.

Cookies
Makes 16-20 cookies, takes about 30 minutes including cook time.

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Farenheit.

Cream together the following in a mixing bowl:
3/4 cup soft butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Add and beat well:
2 eggs

Melt in a saucepan on low heat:
2 bakers semisweet squares
2 tsp butter

Add the melted chocolate to the contents of the bowl and mix thoroughly. Next add the ingredients below, mixing the dry ingredients together a bit first, then into the wet mixture:

2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup icing sugar
Dash salt

Finally, stir in:
1/3 cup chocolate chips
1/3 cup candied orange pieces (your half moons cut into little 1/8" pieces)
Zest of 1 orange

Spoon onto ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes. You can tell they're done when a) you can smell them and b) there is only a dime-sized moist/glossy spot remaining in the center of the cookie.