Chocolate Spritz Cookies Food

CHOCOLATE SPRITZ (COOKIE PRESS)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Beat butter in a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer until creamy; add sugar, cocoa powder, and baking powder. Beat until combined. Scrape sides of bowl down if needed. Stir egg and vanilla extract into butter mixture until just combined; mix in flour.
• Fill the cookie press with dough; press cookies onto an ungreased baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges of cookies are lightly browned, 8 to 10 minutes.

CHOCOLATE SPRITZ COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter, sugar, egg and vanilla in a large mixin g bowl until light and fluffy.
• Add mixture of flour, cocoa and salt gradually; mix well.
• Press through cookie press onto cool ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350° for 5 minutes or until set. Remove onto wire rack.
• Cool completely.

CHOCOLATE SPRITZ COOKIES

Steps:

• Sift flour, cocoa and salt in bowl.
• Beat together butter and sugar in large bowl until smooth and creamy.
• Beat in yolk.
• On low speed, beat in flour mixture until well combined.
• Cover; refrigerate 10 minutes.
• Heat oven to 375ºF.
• Grease several baking sheets.
• Spoon some of dough into cookie press fitted with plate-tip of your choice.
• Keep remaining dough refrigerated.
• Onto prepared baking sheet, press dough onto cookie sheet 1 inch apart.
• NOTE:.
• Cookies can be decorated before baking.
• Bake for 5 to 7 minutes or until firm. Remove from oven.
• With pancake turner, immediately remove cookies from baking sheet to wire racks to cool
• Continue with remaining dough, pressing out and baking.
• Line clean baking sheet with waxed paper.
• Heat chocolate and oil in small saucepan over low heat, until melted.
• Dip ends of each cookie in chocolate, drizzle chocolate mix over cookies, or decorate in any fashion desired.

CHOCOLATE SPRITZ COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Melt over hot (not boiling) water (or in microwave) chocolate chips; remove from heat. Set aside.
• In a bowl, combine butter, sugar and vanilla; beat until creamy. Add eggs; beat well. Stir in melted chocolate. Gradually add flour.
• Chill 30-45 minutes. Place dough in cookie press. Use star tip to shape cookies into 2 inch circles. Place cinnamon candies on each cookie.
• Bake for 5 minutes.

CHOCOLATE-PEPPERMINT SPRITZ

Steps:

• Make the cookies: Preheat the oven to 325˚. Whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl with a mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Beat in the vanilla and egg until just combined. Reduce the mixer speed to medium low and beat in the flour mixture until just combined.
• Fit a cookie press with a wreath disk; fill with the dough according to the manufacturer's instructions. Press cookies 1 inch apart onto 2 unlined baking sheets.
• Bake the cookies, 1 pan at a time, until crisp and set around the edges, 18 to 22 minutes. Immediately remove the cookies to a rack using an offset spatula and let cool completely. Repeat with the remaining cookies.
• Once the cookies have cooled, make the icing: Combine the chocolate, heavy cream and butter in a medium heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water (do not let the bowl touch the water). Stir until melted and smooth, 2 to 4 minutes. Remove the bowl from the pan and stir in the peppermint extract; let cool 5 minutes.
• Transfer the icing to a resealable plastic bag, snip off a corner and drizzle over the cookies. Immediately sprinkle with crushed candy canes. Let set, about 30 minutes.

CHOCOLATE-DIPPED SPRITZ COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar in mixing bowl.
• Beat in egg and vanilla.
• Combine flour, salt and baking soda, gradually add to creamed mixture.
• Using a cookie press, press dough onto ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 375° for 7-9 minutes.
• Original recipe says not to let brown but I prefer it when the edges are slightly brown, it makes the bottoms nice and crispy.
• Remove to cooling rack and let cool completely.
• Melt confectionary coating and dip each cookie half way and sprinkle with finely ground nuts or sprinkles.
• I usually do half semi sweet chocolate and half white chocolate and sprinkle with holiday colored non periels.
• Let harden on wax paper.

CHOCOLATE PRESS COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, cream together the shortening and sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg, and stir in vanilla and milk. Combine the flour, cocoa, and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until just blended. Fill cookie press, and press onto ungreased baking sheets. Decorate with sprinkles if desired.
• Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove from baking sheets to cool on wire racks.

CHOCOLATE PEPPERMINT SPRITZ COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extracts. In another bowl, whisk flour, cocoa and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture., Using a cookie press fitted with a disk of your choice, press dough 1 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake 8-12 minutes or until set. Immediately sprinkle crushed candies over cookies. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Store in airtight containers.

CHOCOLATE-MOCHA SPRITZ COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400F (200 degrees C).
• Combine the flour and salt in a small bowl, stir to mix.
• Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy, Beat in egg and vanilla.
• Add the chocolate, beat again, add coffee and cocoa powder.
• Gradually add the the flour mixture while making.
• Fit a cookie press with desired plate and fill the press with dough, press the dough 1 inch apart onto a ungreased cookie sheet. If you don't have a press, I'm sure you could use a pasty bag and pipe shapes.
• Bake batches for 7 mins or until set (you might want to play around with timings as most ovens are unique). Note these cookies harden whilst they cool, I would also recommend using a mixer unless your super strong as it's quite a lot of dough.

FILLED CHOCOLATE SPRITZ

Steps:

• In a large microwave-safe bowl, melt chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Stir in the butter, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla. Add flour and baking soda and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes or until easy to handle., Using a cookie press fitted with the disk of your choice, press dough 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 6-8 minutes or until set. Remove to wire racks to cool., In a small bowl, combine filling ingredients; stir until smooth. Spread on the bottoms of half of the cookies; top with the remaining cookies., In a microwave, melt milk chocolate chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Drizzle over cookies. Let stand until set.