Desserts
Classic Spritz Cookies
Description
If you’re looking for a new favorite Christmas cookie, we’ve got you covered with this old fashioned spritz cookies recipe.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 1/4 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon almond extract or vanilla
- Food color, if desired
- Currants, raisins, candies, colored sugar, finely chopped nuts, candied fruit or fruit peel, if desired
Directions:
- 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, almond extract and a few drops of food color.
- Place dough in cookie press. Form desired shapes on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Decorate with colored sugar, candies, finely chopped nuts, raisins or currants, candied fruit or fruit peel, if desired.
- Bake 5 to 8 minutes or until set but not brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.
- To decorate cookies after baking, use a drop of corn syrup to attach decorations to cookies.
