Martha Stewart Chocolate Spritz Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Fill cookie press, and form cookies on baking sheets according to manufacturer's instructions.
• If decorating, brush with egg wash, then sprinkle with sugar or sprinkles. Bake until edges are firm (not brown), 10 to 15 minutes. Cool 1 to 2 minutes on baking sheets; cool completely on a rack.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Whisk together flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda; set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugars on medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at a time; add vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture and beat until just combined. Add chocolate chips and mix until evenly distributed throughout. Cookie dough can be refrigerated, covered, overnight, if desired.
• Using a 2 1/4-inch ice cream scoop, drop dough onto parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing about 2 inches apart. Bake until golden around the edges, 15 to 17 minutes. Let cool on sheets 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• In a small bowl, combine flour and salt.
• In a large bowl, cream butter; gradually add sugar.
• Blend in egg and almond extract; beat well.
• Gradually add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture.
• Press dough through cookie press onto ungreased baking sheet.
• Sprinkle with colored decorating sugar.
• Bake for 6 to 8 minutes.
• Cool on wire rack.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375F, with racks in the upper and lower thirds. Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper; set aside.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
• In another bowl, beat the butter and both sugars on medium speed with an electric mixer until light and fluffy (about 3 minutes) scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
• Add the vanilla, whole egg, and egg white, beating on low speed until well combined (about 1 minute).
• Add flour mixture in two batches; mix until just combined.
• Mix in chocolate.
• Shape 2 heaping tablespoons of dough at a time into balls and place about 1 1/2 inches apart on prepared baking sheets.
• Bake, rotating sheets halfway through, until cookies are golden brown, about 18 minutes.
• Transfer parchment and cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Cookies can be kept in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days.

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:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Have ready ungreased baking sheets.
• Whisk together the flour, salt and cinnamon. Using the tip of a paring knife, scrape vanilla seeds into a large bowl, and discard pods. Add sugar and beat with a mixer on medium speed for 3 minute. Ad butter and beat until pale and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks. Add flour mixture, and beat until just combined.
• Attach a wreath disk to a cookie press. Divide dough into 3 portions. Fill press with dough. Press cookies onto baking sheets, spacing them 2 inches apart. Bake until barely golden 9-12 minutes. Immediately sprinkle cookies with cinnamon sugar. Let cool slightly, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely. Repeat with remaining dough. Cookies can be stored or up to 1 week.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325* --
• whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl -- set aside.
• Melt coarsely chopped milk chocolate with the butter in a small heatproof bowl, set over a pan of simmering water.
• transfer chocolate mixture to the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment --
• add sugar, eggs and vanilla -- mix on medium speed until combined --
• reduce speed to low, gradually mix in flour mixture --
• fold in chocolate chunks.
• scoop batter using a 1 1/2" ice cream scoop, place 2" apart on parchment lined baking sheets.
• bake until cookies are flat and surfaces begin to crack.about 15 minutes.
• transfer parchment paper to wire racks.
• let cool 5 minutes.
• cookies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days.