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One Cookie, Two Cookies

December 17, 2009 By Jelli 7 Comments

Holidays are fantastic. Christmas is a wonderful time of the year, and I love getting into the holiday spirit with traditional and jazzy tunes, festive towels (one of my only Christmas decorations to date), adorable fuzzy snowman socks, and of course, the quintessential Christmas cookie! While I’d check most of these items off the list already, I had yet to make a festive-looking cookie. (Fruitcake cookies don’t count, as they don’t “look” like Christmas).

To get myself in gear, I chose a simple, but tasty sugar cookie recipe and scanned hundreds of online photos to decide how to bedeck my lovelies in holiday cheer. Using items in the pantry, I came up with these two variations that made it to work with Husband on Tuesday.

These cookies I brushed lightly with a mixture of flour and water and sprinkled with homemade colored sugar (stir together colorant and granulated sugar) before baking.

Variation two (my personal fave) was baked, cooled, and the top was brushed  with a mixture of 1/2 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips stirred together with a tablespoon of vegetable oil for sheen. I then gave the cookies a dandy sparkling of crushed mint candies to “up” the festive quotient. I really liked the chocolate brushing technique rather than dipping, as the cookies don’t stick to the parchment and are much easier to deal with.

Basic Spritz Cookies
1 c. butter
1 c. sugar
4 yolks ( May also use 2 eggs. I just happen to eat lots of whites and have a freezer full of  yolks)
3 c. flour
1 t. vanilla extract
1 t. almond extract
1/2 t. salt

Beat butter until it lightens a bit. Add sugar and beat an additional minute on medium-high speed. Add remaining ingredients and beat to combine.

Fill a pastry bag fitted with a large star tip with the dough. Pipe 3″ cookies onto a well-greased or parchment-lined baking sheet*. Refrigerate cookies and preheat oven to 400F. When oven is fully heated, bake for 7-10 minutes, or until just beginning to brown.** Cool and store in airtight containers.

*For variation one: Combine 1/4 c. sugar with food colorant as desired. Stir to combine evenly. In another small bowl, combine 1t. flour with 3T. water. Brush one end of cookies with flour mixture and sprinkle with sugar. Bake as directed

** Variation two: Melt 1/2 c. chocolate chips of choice and 1T. vegetable oil in the microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring between, until melted. Brush the tops of one end of each cookie with chocolate and sprinkle on a bit a crushed mint candies. Allow chocolate to cool and harden before packaging.

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: Cookies, desserts

About Jelli

Jelli is a blogging veteran and avid baker who’s been selling sweets to feed her chocolate addiction for 8+ years. When the polka dotted apron’s hanging up, she’s a full-time mama to three kidlets enjoying the crazy days of motherhood and pumping out brownie recipes from her sunny Costa Rican kitchen.

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Comments

  1. Chef Aimee says

    December 17, 2009 at 10:12 pm

    How festive and yummy! I love that you wore snowman socks, too!

    Reply
  2. Alicia (The Red Deer) says

    December 18, 2009 at 5:10 am

    I should make some so I can finally use my cookie press.

    Reply
  3. Romy says

    December 18, 2009 at 7:51 am

    Thanks for your comment on my blog! Have you lived in Switzerland?

    Reply
  4. Erika from The Pastry Chef At Home says

    December 18, 2009 at 3:22 pm

    Festive towels AND homemade colored sugar?! Sounds like the holidays to me!

    I love the “Polaroid” snapshots!

    Reply
  5. NiftyButton says

    December 23, 2009 at 10:38 am

    Love the chocolate dipped ones rolled in crushed mints. Wish I had some right about now. I bet they’d be great with coffee!

    Reply
  6. Julia @Mélanger says

    December 28, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    Ohhh, I love cookie press cookies. Love how you have decorated them differently!

    Reply
  7. Anonymous says

    January 2, 2010 at 11:48 pm

    Genious on the colored sugar!!! Can’t believe I’ve never thought of that. It sure would have come in handy in the past week. My sister was making sugar cookies for my parents’ neighbors/co-workers and she ran out of the green sprinkles. Every store around town was out, so she just did without. What a simple solution she could have had. Haha.
    -Christina

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