Name: Chocolate Spritz Cookies Recipe
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 7/8 cup Butter (soft); 3/4 cup Powdered Sugar; 2 Teaspoons Vanilla Sugar (*see Notes); 2 Eggs; 2 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour; 1/2 cup Cocoa Powder Unsweetened; molten chocolate, nuts, other deco (optional)

Helene Dsouza

Chocolate Spritz cookies are easy to prepare from scratch and taste amazing! Make sure to get a cookie Press or a Piping bag with a nozzle to make these classic cookies.

Total Time: 35

Prep Time: 25

Cook Time: 10

40 cookies

4.9 from 18 votes

Recipe

Chocolate Spritz Cookies are classic cookies that shouldn't be missed in any cookie exchange.

These melt in the mouth short crust piped or pressed cookies are easy to make if you follow the instructions with the proper tools further below.

Learn how to make chocolate Spritz cookies with the how to step by step instructions, useful tips and recipe further below.

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📕 What are Spritz Cookies?
🔪 How to make Chocolate Spritz Cookies?
📜 Chocolate Spritz Cookies Variations
🧰 Gadgets to make Chocolate Spritz Cookies
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📕 What are Spritz Cookies?

Spritz cookies, or chocolate spritz cookies, must have originated in central Europe, mostly around the German speaking corners or Europe.

Chocolate spritz cookies, the chocolate variation of plain Spritz, are some of the most commonly baked cookies during Christmas time.

Spritz cookies are piped or pressed shortcrust cookies and are better known as Spritzgebäck in German.

Nowadays, Spritz cookies can be commonly found not only in Austria and Germany but also in neighboring regions and countries. Such as Alsace (France), where they are known as Spritzer cookies. Also in Switzerland and the former Austrian empire countries including the northernmost Italian province Alto Adige, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

Spritz are of course popular and common place in the US and Canada as well!

🔪 How to make Chocolate Spritz Cookies?

Spritz cookies are prepared form a wet stirred short crust pastry which includes eggs to keep the cookies firm after having baked them.

To make chocolate Spritz cookies, you need to add cocoa powder to the base mixture.

Spritz cookies are great for cookie baking beginners as this stirred short crust dough is the easiest pastry out there for cookies.

You just need to pipe or press the cookies into shapes and that's it.

So if you want to get better in piping pastry then you should make these cookies as it teaches you easily how to hold the piping bag.

You literally get the hang for it quickly!

Essential tips for perfect Chocolate Spritz cookies

Preparation

The stirred shortcrust should never be mixed & stirred for too long or it won't hold together, that can result in the fats separating from the pastry while baking and you can recognize this when the fat oozes out during the baking process.

Just mix the pastry for as long as needed, that means until there are no lumps left and it looks smooth.

Usually not longer than 2-3 minutes.

Consistency

The stirred shortcrust pastry consistency should be smooth.

To achieve that you need to mix the sugar with the butter first, and then only you add the scrambled eggs a batch at a time while mixing with a hand mixer to a smooth pastry.

Sieved Flour is added only at the end and the pastry is piped on the baking tray without delay!

Baking

The temperature while baking should always be around 200 Celsius or 400 Fahrenheit for small shortcrust pastries such as the piped/pressed cookies.

If the oven is too cool then the pastry's fat will ooze out and the cookies will lose shape.

On the contrary, if the oven is too hot, then the small bakeries tend to burn very quickly.

In general, they should be baked to a very light to golden shade (always for about 10 minutes).

I am sharing the tips from our Austrian college book, 2005 edition: "Küche und Arbeitsorganisation" Trauner Verlag, Page 266, "Besonderheiten bei der Herstellung von Mürbteigen"

So as you can see, it's all about timing and simple physics in the kitchen and I don't think so you need to be a pastry professional to make your own batch of chocolate spritz cookies at home.

In fact, chocolate spritz cookies are perfect when you are planning to bake with your kids this Christmas.

📜 Chocolate Spritz Cookies Variations

Chocolate Spritz cookies can be shaped into different forms and you can decorate the cookies to your liking with powdered sugar, nuts and jam.

We usually tend to dip the Sprtz cookies into molten chocolate or at least the ends.

That makes the cookies all the more special.

Another thing that you can do is to spread some jam on one cookie floor side and press another cookie on the jam to make a sandwich chocolate spritz cookie.

Or if you want plain Spritz cookies, then you are, of course, free to skip the cocoa powder in the recipe further below!

🧰 Gadgets to make Chocolate Spritz Cookies

To make Chocolate Spritz Cookies from scratch and to decorate the cookies you will need some common kitchen tools to help you succeed.

The kitchen tools will come handy the whole year round and not just for one batch of cookies during Christmas.

You have the option between a comfortable Cookie Press or a Piping bag to shape beautiful cookies.

You either pick the cookie press or the piping bag with the nozzle tips.

Whichever you use is a preference story and depends on your budget and how much you are ready to spend on your kitchen equipment.

I selected one quality product option for each tool type so that you can confidently pick your future gadget.

Dear Reader, did you have chocolate spritz cookies when you were small or how did you get to know about these cookies?

This post has been updated and was first published on the 26th November 2012.