Orange and Chocolate Chip Dots

1 cup butter (or 1/2 c. butter and 1/2 c. canola oil)
2/3 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon grated orange peel, or 2 tablespoons orange extract
1 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup chocolate chips

1. Heat oven to 375°F.
2. Beat together all ingredients except flour and chocolate chips; mix well. Stir in flour to form a dough. Mix in chocolate chips. If dough is too crumbly, add milk a tablespoon or two at a time until consistency improves.
3. Form cookies into balls about the size of golf balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. These cookies do not spread much, so you can place the dough balls fairly close together.
4. Bake for about 10 minutes, until set but not brown. Let cool and serve.

Makes about 2 dozen cookies.

Now that I'm in my second trimester, I'm loving food again, and smells too. Good thing, or it would've been hard to compile this collection without wanting to gag. Now, though, I'm all, "Jasmine green tea smells so incredibly good! Where can I get a perfume that smells exactly like this? And our Christmas tree! Our Christmas tree smells like heaven! And, mmm, did someone just peel open an orange?"