Chocolate and orange often arrive together at a holiday party in the form of chocolate-dipped, candied orange peels. Although I am enamored with the flavor duo, I am almost always left wishing the treat were more about the citrus and less about the sugar, as the rind is typically boiled until sticky-sweet in a concentrated sugar syrup¹.

节日聚会少不了巧克力橘片组合--蘸着巧克力酱的蜜饯陈皮。虽然我十分享受这一双重口味，但同时我也希望巧克力橘片的柑橘味更重、糖味更少。因为蜜饯陈皮通常是在浓缩糖浆中煮至粘稠状所得。

The accompanying recipe is my wish come true. It captures the pure essence of the chocolate-orange pairing with enough sugar to temper the citrus rind's bitterness without drowning out its flavor. Cutting a whole orange or two into very thin wheels using a mandoline and baking the slices at a low temperature - dehydrating them, really - turns them into crisp rounds of concentrated orange flavor. The sprinkle of confectioners' sugar that dissolves into the fruit as it cooks offsets² the intensity³ of the peel without making it markedly sweet.

随附的这份食谱让我的希冀成真。这份食谱掌握到了巧克力橘片的精髓--糖分足以调和橘片的苦味，但却不会遮盖其原本的味道。用mandoline切片机将一个或两个橙子切成超薄的橘片，而后低温烘焙--使其脱水--变成圆形的浓缩薄脆橘片。烹煮的过程中撒上精制细砂糖使其溶于橘片，但糖分的含量不足以遮盖橘片本身的味道（不会变得齁甜）。

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The orange crisps are then dipped in melted chocolate and then chilled until the coating has set. They make a lovely holiday gift layered in a box or jar and wrapped with a ribbon - if you can resist keeping them all to yourself.

然后将橘片浸入融化的巧克力中，冷却至包裹层凝固。将做好的巧克力橘片放入礼盒或罐子中用丝带包好，一份精美的节日礼物就呈现在眼前啦--如果你能经得住诱惑，不独吞的话。

Ingredients

所需材料

2 medium navel oranges, well scrubbed

2个中等大小洗干净的脐橙

2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar

2勺精制细砂糖

5 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped

5盎司切碎的半甜巧克力

Steps

制作步骤

Position racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven; preheat to 200 degrees.

将烤架放置在烤箱的上下三分之一处并预热至200度。

Use a mandoline to cut the oranges into 24 very thin slices. Discard any pits (sometimes found even in navel oranges), then arrange the orange slices on the baking sheets in a single layer. Sprinkle them with the sugar. Bake (upper and lower racks) for about 2 hours, until the oranges are dried and crisp, rotating the baking sheets from top to bottom and front to back after 1 hour. Cool completely.

用mandoline切片机将橙子切成24块薄片。扔掉有坑的切片（有的脐橙会有），然后将薄片一片片地单放在烤盘上。撒上糖。烘焙上下层烤架约2小时，直至橘片完全干燥、变脆。一小时后，按照由上至下、由前至后的顺序旋转烤盘至完全冷却。

Place the chocolate in a small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on HIGH in 30-second intervals⁴, stirring after each time until the chocolate is just melted and smooth. Dip the orange slices in chocolate to coat them halfway⁵, returning them to the wax paper-lined baking sheets once they are dipped. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.

将巧克力放入小型微波炉中。高温微波30秒后搅拌，重复此步骤直至巧克力完全融化、变得丝滑。将橘片的半边蘸上巧克力，而后放入蜡纸衬里的烤盘中。最后，将其放入冰箱冷藏30分钟。