| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 2 hr |
| Active: | 50 min |
| Yield: | About 90 spritz cookies |
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 1 3/4 sticks (14 tablespoons) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 2/3cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
- Crushed candy canes, for decorating
Instructions
- 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.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 90 servings |
| Calories | 42 |
| Total Fat | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Carbohydrates | 5 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Sugar | 2 g |
| Protein | 0 g |
| Cholesterol | 8 mg |
| Sodium | 5 mg |
Reviews
These cookies are easy to bake and have a nice deep chocolate flavor. The final steps of adding the chocolate peppermint drizzle and the crushed candy canes add just enough “ zing, plus they look more artisanal so they are a nice addition to my Christmas cookie assortment.
delicious recipe. super easy to make and lots of peppermint flavor.
These were delicious. Easy to make and just the right amount of peppermint flavor.