Cocoa Spritz Cookies Recipes

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.

Steps:

• HEAT oven to 400 degrees F. Combine powdered sugar and shortening in a large bowl; beat on medium speed until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, salt, water, vanilla and almond extracts. Using a spoon, stir in flour until well mixed.
• FIT cookie press with desired template. Fill cookie press; press dough onto ungreased cookie sheets. Sprinkle with colored sugar, if desired.
• BAKE 7 to 9 minutes or until set, but not brown. Cool one minute. Remove to cooling rack.

Steps:

• Position racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F.
• Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Beat the butter and granulated sugar in a large bowl with a mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add the egg, honey and vanilla and beat until combined. Reduce the mixer speed to low; add the flour mixture and beat until just incorporated (the dough will be soft).
• Fill a cookie press with the dough according to the manufacturer's instructions; press out the cookies about 1 1/2 inches apart onto 2 ungreased baking sheets.
• Decorate the cookies with coarse sugar and/or nonpareils. Bake, switching the position of the pans halfway through, until the cookies are just golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Let cool 2 minutes on the baking sheets, then transfer to racks to cool completely.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Beat butter until light and fluffy.
• Add sugar and continue beating until blended.
• Beat in egg yolks.
• Beat in vanilla extract.
• Beat in cherry extract.
• Beat in cocoa.
• Add flour and mix well.
• Using cookie press, press cookies out onto an ungreased baking sheet.
• Bake about 8 minutes, or until tops are dry but not browned.

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.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Stir flour, salt and baking powder in medium bowl until well blended. Beat shortening, butter and powdered sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, almond extract and food color. Beat in flour mixture gradually until blended.
• Fit cookie press with Christmas tree or wreath plate according to manufacturer's instructions. Fill cookie press according to instructions. Press dough onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake 6 to 7 minutes or until set, but not brown. Cool 1 minute on baking sheet. Remove to wire rack to cool completely.
• Place frosting in large heavy-duty resealable plastic bag. Microwave on HIGH 20 to 30 seconds to soften. Knead. Cut very small bottom corner off bag. Drizzle over cookies in a decorative pattern. Place candy bits from frosting in medium bowl. Hold cookie over bowl and sprinkle with candy bits. Let stand 15 minutes or until frosting is set.

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.

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.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Cream together butter with both sugars.
• Add eggs, beating well after each addition.
• Add vanilla.
• Sift together flour, cocoa, salt, and baking soda.
• Gradually add dry mixture into wet mixture and beat well, dough will be stiff.
• Assemble cookie press and fill with dough, using desired disc.
• At this point, you can chill the dough in the press if it doesn't seem firm enough.
• Press cookies onto ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake 12-15 minutes until slightly golden.
• Note:If you aren't experienced with a cookie press, it make take a few trial and errors, make sure to use an ungreased cookie sheet, the cookies need to"grab" onto the sheet, if necessary, spray the outer side of the disc with vegetable oil to make the cookie release more easily.

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.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. In a large mixing bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add egg and almond extract; mix well. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed mixture until blended., Using a cookie press fitted with the disk of your choice, press dough 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. If desired, sprinkle with toppings. Bake until set (do not brown), 7-8 minutes.