Dipped Pecan Spritz
photo by Marg (CaymanDesigns)
- Ready In:
- 28mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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130
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups butter, softened (no substitutes)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 teaspoon almond extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup finely ground pecans
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3⁄4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons shortening, divided
- 3⁄4 cup vanilla chips or 3/4 cup white chocolate chips
- colored sprinkles
directions
- In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugarl beat in egg and extracts.
- Combine the flour, pecans and baking powder; gradually add to creamed mixture.
- Using a cookie press fitted with disk of your choice, press sough 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake at 375 for 5-7 minutes or until set[ do not brown].
- Remove to wire racks to cool.
- In a microwave, melt chocolate chips and 3/4 t.
- shortening; stir until smooth.
- Melt vanilla chips and remaining shortening at 70% power; stir until smooth.
- Dip half of the cookies halfway in semisweet mixture; allow excess to drip off.
- Place on waxed paper to harden.
- Dip remaining cookies halfway in vanilla mixture; allow excess to drip off.
- Place on waxed paper and sprinkle coated area with colored sprinkles.
- Let harden.
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Reviews
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These are cute little cookies that have a nice mild flavor. Be sure that the pecans are very finely ground or else they can get stuck in the cookie press disks. Mine baked up perfectly in 6 minutes, but they are very fragile so I left them to cool on the sheet for alittle while. I made these for Christmas cookie trays and they were very cute. Thank you for sharing!
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These were a good variation on regular spritz. I made them today as part of my jump-start on Christmas baking. I definitely think they tasted better once dipped in the chocolate (admittedly, I sampled a couple before dipping!). I halved the recipe, but kept the extracts at the full amount. I chilled the dough for about 60 minutes prior to filling my cookie press, just to make sure it was firm enough to easily press out. The main piece of advice I would give to anyone else thinking of making these is to make sure you remove them from the cookie sheet almost right away once they come out of the oven - I let one pan sit too long before trying to remove them and I had a bit of difficulty getting them off. I also had a couple of them break in half when I was trying to dip them, but they still taste good! Thank you for posting!!
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These are incredible!! My sister-in-law made them for Christmas last year. Of all the new cookies I tried last year, this was the only recipe I made sure I got for my own collection. They are very easy to make but also very pretty. I decorated some as the recipe called for with sprinkles & I decorated some with the opposite color chocolate drizzled over the dipped chocolate. I think these are my new favorite Christmas cookies!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Courtly
United States