Chocolate Spritz Cookies

Chocolate Spritz Cookies are a chocolate version of your favorite classic butter spritz cookie. They can be decorated with festive sprinkles or with crushed peppermint!

This post was originally published at Day 10 of the 12 Days of Christmas Series.

In college, my roommate and good friend Kathleen and I would bake Christmas cookies and give them out to our friends. She introduced me to this recipe for Chocolate Butter Spritz Cookies, and I loved them.

You see, in my family, there really are no chocolate cookies on Christmas. We have our Chewy Oatmeal Cookies, [Not My] Granny's Sugar Cookies, and Classic Butter Cookies, and a few other variations of the butter - including some rolled in chopped nuts and topped with jam - but no chocolate. I was pleasantly surprised to find out how much I love chocolate butter cookies!

This recipe is a little different than my Grandma's butter cookies, in that it just has flour - no salt or baking powder. I was a little concerned about the lack of salt, because one of my favorite things about the butter cookies is their balance of salt and butteriness, but I actually like it. It's a bit different but still great.

This year I really over-extended myself on my baking - I was very ambitious and bit off a little more than I could chew (no pun intended). Thankfully, my wonderful husband came to the rescue! I had made the batches of dough days before and stored them in the freezer/fridge, so as I worked on other baking and assembled other treats, Bob pressed these cookies and decorated them. I think he did a great job! His coloring of my Grandma's Butter Cookies is so vibrant, and he decorated them very creatively.

For the press cookies, I usually do half topped with crushed peppermint (seriously SO good!) and half with just red hots, colored sugar, sprinkles, etc. Some of the cookies that received the finely crushed peppermint, which was like a powder, don't even look like they have peppermint because it baked in - it's such a great flavor.

Gluten Free Option

I have good luck using Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free 1 to 1 Baking Flour in place of all purpose flour with spritz cookies. The dough may be a bit harder to work with, and the cookie are more crumbly, but the flavor is the same!

Looking for More Christmas Cookies?

Check out my favorite Christmas Cookie recipes:
Classic Butter Cookies
Chewy Oatmeal Cookies
Santa's Whiskers Cookies
Triple Chocolate Biscotti Cookies
Dark Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
Pastel Christmas Sugar Cookies
Brown Sugar and Spice Cookies
Gingerbread Cookies
Espresso Chocolate Chip Shortbread
Coconut Macaroons

📖 Recipe

Chocolate Spritz Cookies

Meghan

Chocolate Spritz Cookies are a chocolate version of your favorite classic butter spritz cookie. They can be decorated with festive sprinkles or with crushed peppermint!

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 30 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 48 cookies (approx.)

Calories 68 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 1 cup butter, at room temperature (2 sticks )
• ½ cup confectioners/powdered sugar
• ½ cup packed brown sugar
• ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 tablespoons creme de cacao or milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 ⅓ cups all purpose flour
• optional decorations: sprinkles (crushed peppermint, etc.)

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Beat butter with a stand or electric mixer on medium-high for 30 seconds. Add sugars and cocoa powder until combined.
  1 cup butter, at room temperature, ½ cup confectioners/powdered sugar, ½ cup packed brown sugar, ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• Beat in egg yolk, milk (or creme de cacao), and vanilla. Add flour.
  1 egg yolk, 2 tablespoons creme de cacao or milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 2 ⅓ cups all purpose flour
• Use a cookie press or roll dough in small balls and flatten slightly. Place 1-inch apart on ungreased baking sheets.
• Decorate as desired. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until edges are firm but not brown (this sounds kind of odd since they are brown cookies, but you get the idea).
• Remove from sheets and cool on a rack.

Notes

Source: Adapted from Kathleen K.

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Nutrition

Calories: 68kcalCarbohydrates: 9gProtein: 1gFat: 4gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 14mgSodium: 32mgPotassium: 19mgFiber: 0.3gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 125IUCalcium: 6mgIron: 0.4mg

Keyword chocolate, cookies, dessert, gluten free, holiday

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