Chocolate Spritz Reindeer

Salty pretzel "antlers" complement sweet chocolate reindeer "faces" for cookies that kids of all ages will enjoy!

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ingredients 11
Prep Time 60 min
Total Time 1 hr 15 min

Ingredients

1: cup butter, softened

1/2: cup powdered sugar

1/2: cup packed brown sugar

1/4: cup unsweetened baking cocoa

3: tablespoons milk

1: teaspoon vanilla

1: egg yolk

2: cups all-purpose flour

60: large pretzel twists

60: miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits

120: miniature chocolate chips

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Directions

1 Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, beat butter with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Beat in sugars and cocoa until well blended. Beat in milk, vanilla and egg yolk. On low speed, slowly beat in flour until well blended, scraping bowl occasionally.
2 Fit heart template in cookie press; fill cookie press with dough. Place pretzels onto lightly floured surface. Force dough through template on top of flat, bottom end of each pretzel twist (two rounds at top of pretzel will form the antlers). Press 2 baking bit at upper part of heart to make eyes, and 1 chocolate chip to make nose on each reindeer. Place reindeer on ungreased cookie sheet.
3 Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until cookies are firm, but not browned. Remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.

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If you don't have a cookie press, shape dough into 1 1/4-inch balls. Press 1 ball over bottom of 1 pretzel, pinching bottom in to form nose.

These cookies get their name from the word "spritzen," which is German for "to squirt or spray."

Nutrition Information

NUTRITION INFORMATION PER SERVING

Serving Size: 1 Cookie

Calories: 130
Calories from Fat: 40),

% Daily Value

Total Fat: 4 1/2g; 4 1/2%
(Saturated Fat 2 1/2g, 2 1/2% Trans Fat 0g 0% ),
Cholesterol: 10mg; 10%;
Sodium: 240mg; 240%;
Total Carbohydrate: 21g; 21%
(Dietary Fiber 1g 1% Sugars 5g 5% ),
Protein: 2g; 2%

% Daily Value*:

Vitamin A: 2%;
Vitamin C: 0%;
Calcium: 0%;
Iron: 6%;

Exchanges:

1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;

Carbohydrate Choices:

1 1/2

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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gwashington1961

report Posted Feb. 14, 2012 4:37 AM

My family's take on reindeer cookies for the holidays has always depended on a bottom line peanut butter flavored & shaped commercial store bought cookie. This recipe is very different from mine, yet I am very impressed with this spritz cookie. The cookie flavors sound quite good. I like using the heart shaped tip to create the basic cookie. The way it attaches to the pretzel to bake the 'antlers' into the cookie, and also bakes the features into the face really impresses me. It deletes using 'candy melt glue' which may or may not hold. This recipe makes a super tasty cookie surprise! Yum!

gwashington1961

report Posted Feb. 13, 2012 11:12 PM

For many years my son and I enjoyed making "Rudolf" cookies. We bought Hershey's miniature sugar coated chocolate baking pieces. We sorted through & set aside all the red ones for the noses. We saved all the other colors in pairs for the eyes. This gave a cookie with either yellow, green, blue, or brown eyes & that famous red nose. We used Nutter Butter peanut shaped commercial cookies. We melted butterscotch or peanut butter flavored Candy Melts to use as 'glue' to hold on the candy features-and the two small pretzel antlers. These were fun to make & give as gifts. Yummy Treats!