Nice Classic Spritz Cookies

Spritz cookies are the cookies I most associate amongst the holidays. Mainly because nosotros exclusively brand them during the holidays together with nosotros ever brand them inwards the cast of Christmas trees. 

Spritz cookies accept ever been my favorite. I dear the dough (don't country my mom that I swallow it), I dear the classic buttery taste, together with I dear the fact that they're modest plenty that you lot tin swallow 2 or iii (or 4 or five)!

The clandestine to making these cookies is making certain the dough is chilled together with difficult plenty that it comes out of the cookie press firmly, that agency the cast of the cutter stays (meaning it doesn't melt into ane large blob).

Classic Spritz Cookies

Printable Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 together with 1/2 loving cup flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 sticks (1 cup) salted butter
• 3/4 loving cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon almond extract

You volition too necessitate a cookie press, although I suppose you lot could brand this same recipe without ane - they simply won't come upward out inwards fun shapes!

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit
2. Mix flour together with baking pulverization inwards medium bowl together with fix aside
3. Combing butter, sugar, egg, together with almond extract inwards large bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl ofttimes until creamy.
4. Slowly add together flour mixture to large bowl together with vanquish at depression speed until well-mixed.
5. Chill dough for well-nigh an hour.
6. Fit cookie press amongst desired template together with arrive at amount press amongst dough.
7. Press dough onto ungreased cookie canvas well-nigh ane inch apart. Sprinkle amongst decorator saccharide or other desired sprinkles.
8. Bake cookie for 8-10 minutes, or until the edges are low-cal brown.