Empirical Foodism

I admit, when I saw the recipe for these cookies, I was completely intrigued by the idea.  I found the reicpe on Baked Perfection's blog.  Orange creamsicle, um, yes please!!! I whipped out my bowl and all my ingredients and got to mixing.  After I put in the flour, I realized that this wasn't going to work out.  The dough was super dry, I don't know that it would have even held together had I tried to make cookies.  I don't know what I did wrong.  I look on the above blog and the cookies are super beautiful.  I was cooking at night, so there is a chance that I screwed something up (in fact, there's a good chance that I screwed up). However, I knew I could salvage this cookie dough.  I added an extra egg.  It made sense, there was a lot of flour, and not much in the way of liquid ingredients.  After adding the egg, it was better.  Still a really stiff dough, but definitely workable.  I added in my zest and my white choc...