Holiday Spritz

• Refrigerated

  • 3 Egg yolks

• Baking & Spices

  • 2 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
  • 1 oz Chocolate, unsweetened
  • 1 Gel food coloring, Red
  • 1 Holiday colors sprinkles
  • 1/2 tsp Peppermint extract
  • 2/3 cup Sugar
  • 1 Sugar crystals, red

• Dairy

  • 1 cup Butter, unsalted

• Desserts

  • 1 Cinnamon candy balls, red

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Description

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• ⅔ cup sugar
• 3 egg yolks
• 2½ cups all-purpose flour
• ½ tsp peppermint extract
• 1oz unsweetened chocolate, melted
• red gel food coloring
• red sugar crystals
• red cinnamon candy balls
• holiday colors sprinkles

Directions

• Preheat oven to 400 F degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
• In the bowl of your stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar for about 3 minutes.
• Add the eggs, one at a time and mix until smooth. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl to ensure all the egg has been incorporated.
• In three parts, add the flour and mix until just combined. Scrape the bowl.
• Separate the dough into two parts and remove half to another bowl.
• With the remaining half, add the peppermint extract and mix until combined.
• Remove half of the peppermint dough and set aside. With the remaining peppermint dough, add red gel food coloring and mix until incorporated.
• Fit a cookie press with a flower patterned disc. Push the white peppermint dough into one side of the barrel of the cookie press, pushing against the wall of the press. Add the red peppermint dough to the other side.
• Force the dough through the cookie press onto a prepared baking sheet.
• Sprinkle red sugar crystals onto each cookie.
• Bake 6-8 minutes or until set. DO NOT over-bake or allow to brown.
• Cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. While still on the cookie sheet, press a red cinnamon candy ball into the center of each cookie.
• With the remaining cookie dough, mix in the melted chocolate.
• Fit a cookie press with a tree patterned disc. Fill the barrel with the chocolate dough.
• Force the dough through the cookie press onto a prepared baking sheet.
• Sprinkle holiday sprinkles onto each cookie.
• Bake 6-8 minutes or until set. DO NOT over-bake or allow to brown.
• Cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.