How to Prepare Tasty Short Bread Spritz Cookies

Short Bread Spritz Cookies. Browse For Yummy & Hassle-Free Cookie Recipes From Kraft®. This recipe is reported to work well in the Proctor-Silex Super Shooter or Super Shooter Plus cookie press. It will also work with other cookie presses if the dough is refrigerated first.

In a medium mixing bowl, cream together butter, confectioners' sugar, and vanilla until smooth with electric mixer. Pop dough into your cookie press, and away you go! Press cookies out onto ungreased cookie sheets. You can cook Short Bread Spritz Cookies using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Short Bread Spritz Cookies

1. You need 1 cup of butter, softened.
2. It's 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
3. You need 1/2 cup of powdered sugar.
4. It's 6 tbsp of cornstarch.
5. You need 1/8 tsp of salt.
6. Prepare 1 1/2 cups of flour.

Spritz cookies and shortbread cookies both fall into the beloved category of classic and simple butter cookies. Side by side their ingredient lists are nearly identical in contents and measures. They both bake up buttery (no surprise there) with a tender, melt-in-your-mouth quality and a not-too-sweet flavor. Besides chocolate chip cookies, we bake Shortbread spritz cookies as well!

Short Bread Spritz Cookies step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter, vanilla & powdered sugar on medium until mixed..
2. Add in cornstarch, flour, and salt. Beat just until combined..
3. Place dough into cookie press and press onto an ungreased pan. Add sprinkles or colored sugar if desired..
4. Bake 9-11 minutes or just until done. Immediately transfer to a wire rack to cool. If you don't have a cookie press, you can make small balls about 3/4" and press flat with fork. You can also use a pastry bag and a piping tip and make little circles or squares..

This cookie recipe is an old one, but until today, still popular! Every country in Europe has their own style of spritz cookies. In the Netherlands, spritz cookies are thick and crispy. In Austria they are pretty thin. Keyword: christmas cookies, shortbread cookies, spritz cookies.