How To Make Classic Spritz Cookies

Author: Lisa Jorgensen
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes

Ingredients

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1 cup butter, softened 1/2 cup sugar 2 1/4 cups of all purpose flour 1/4 tsp salt 1 egg 1 tsp almond extract (vanilla extract works too) sprinkles, if desired food coloring, if desired

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Instructions

You can add food coloring to the dough if you want a colorful cookie. Or you can add sprinkles on top BEFORE baking the spritz cookies. I used GOLD Glitter Sprinkles like these from Wilton.

Heat oven to 400 degrees. Beat butter and sugar in a large bowl. Stir in flour, salt, egg, almond extract. Add food coloring if desired. Dough will not be sticky but easy to touch. Roll into a cylinder about the size of the cookie press you are using. Place dough into cookie press and attach the top using the stencil you desire. Press cookie shapes onto an UNGREASED cookie sheet. Decorate with sprinkles.

Bake 5-8 minutes until set, but NOT brown. Cookies should be light in color.

Notes

Cookie Press Instructions

Roll your dough into a cylinder shape that is about the size of your cookie press.
Insert dough into your cookie press opening.
Squish it down to fill in all the air pockets. Take off any excess.
Put on your cookie stencil and twist on the top of your press until tight.
Place the cookie press down on the cookie sheet and hold firm.
Press down on the lever of your press until you feel the dough release through the stencil. Gently lift up press to reveal the cookie. This may take a little practice.
Repeat until you run out of dough. Change discs as desired.
Add sprinkles to your cookies before baking if you want.

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