Recipe: Delicious Spritz cookies

Spritz cookies. Try this version featuring almond-flavored dough. Make sure to bring your dough back to room temperature before using. In short, Spritz cookies are butter cookies made with a cookie press or cookie maker.

The cookies turn out beautiful and taste sweet, buttery, crumbly and practically melt in your mouth. Spritz cookies are definitely Scandinavian (Danish, Swede, Swiss, Norwegian, German, and Dutch), as is Yule. They are the traditional Christmas cookie. You can cook Spritz cookies using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Spritz cookies

1. It's 1 cup of butter, softened.
2. You need 1/2 cup of sugar.
3. Prepare 2 1/4 cup of all purpose flour.
4. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
5. It's 1 of egg.
6. It's 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
7. Prepare of Food coloring(use the icing food coloring).
8. You need of Holiday sprinkles.

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Spritz cookies step by step

1. Heat oven to 400°F. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour, salt, egg, vanilla extract and a few drops of food color(use the icing food coloring). My reason for saying that is you don't want to change the dough to being more runny than a soft dough..
2. Place dough in cookie press. Form desired shapes on ungreased cookie sheet. Decorate with holiday sprinkles..
3. Bake 5 to 8 minutes or until set but not brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.* Creative mix-ins or decorations will make each batch of spritz cookies one that’s uniquely your own. Drizzle with melted chocolate, mix in chopped nuts or dried fruit, sprinkle with sparkling sugar, color them to match the season. Enjoy.

Read the Story Behind the Recipe Spritz Cookies are a Holiday Classic Cookie Recipe! I will admit, Spritz Cookies have never been a first choice cookie for me. No oozy caramel, no chocolate chips, no frosting… but isn't there just something cozy and special about the classic Spritz? While spritz cookies are traditionally made using a cookie press, you can easily make them without. Simply scoop dough by the teaspoon, roll into a ball and place onto a rimmed baking sheet.