~ Chocolate spritz Recipe ~

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       Title: Chocolate Spritz
  Categories: Cookies
       Yield: 7 servings
  
   1 1/2 c  Butter
       1 c  Sugar
     1/4 c  Unsweetened cocoa powder
       1 ts Baking powder
       1    Egg
       1 ts Vanilla
   3 1/2 c  All-purpose flour
       2 oz Semisweet chocolate; cut up
            Or green candy coating
            Disks
       2 tb Shortening
  
        Beat butter in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium
   speed for 30 seconds.  Add sugar and cocoa powder and baking powder and
   beat well. Add egg and vanilla. Beat till well combined. Beat in as much
   flour as you can. Stir in any remaining flour with a wooden spoon. Do not
   chill   dough.  Pack dough into a cookie press.  Force dough through press
   onto ungressed cookie sheet.
       Bake in a 375 oven for 8 to 10 minutes or till   edges of cookies are
   firm but not brown.  Remove cookies and cool on wire racks.
      Melt together chocolate or candy coating and shortening in a small heavy
   saucepan.  Place cookies on waxed paper, drizzle with the melted mixture.
   Let stand till drizzle is set. Makes about 84.
          Source:  BH&G Christmas Cookies 1995.
  
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