Chocolate Spritz Cookies

 

Country Cooking

 

 

1 ½  cups butter

1      cup granulated sugar

3 ¼  cups all-purpose flour

¼     cup cocoa powder

1      teaspoon baking powder

1      teaspoon vanilla

2      medium eggs

 

Cream together the butter and the sugar.  Sift together the cocoa powder, flour and baking powder.  Add 1 cup flour mixture, egg and vanilla to creamed mixture.  Beat in remaining flour mixture. 

Force unchilled dough through a cookie press onto an ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake for 8 to 10 minutes of till edges are firm, but not brown.  Cool cookies on a wire rack.  Frost or sprinkle with chopped nuts and/or colored sugar.

Yield:  5 dozen cookies. 

 

Carolyn Gass Hardimon, M. S.              Home Economist                www.recipeladies.com

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