Spritz Cookies
From peetabear 16 years ago
- 12 minutes to make
- Serves 36
These are a pretty buttery Christmas cookie and one that I make to use up all the extra egg yolks. I usually make them in wreath shapes and decorate them with green and red candied cherries. The recipe is from Baking Easy and Elegant.
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups unsalted butter shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups sugar shopping list
- 4 egg yolks shopping list
- 2 teasp. vanilla shopping list
- 1 TBSP. finely grated lemon or orange peel ( I use lemon) shopping list
- food coloring optional..( i don't usually use it) shopping list
- 4 cups flour ( I substitute 1/2 cup of pastry flour for 1/2 cup reg. flour) shopping list
- 1 1/2 teasp. baking powder shopping list
How to make it
- beat butter, sugar, egg yolks, vanilla, lemon peel until creamy
- stir flour and baking powder into the butter mixture 1 cup at a time
- beat well after each cup
- pack dough into a cookie press using your choice of plates.
- press out 1'' apart on an ungreased baking sheet
- bake at 350' for 12-15 mins or until they just start to turn light golden
- If decorating with candied fruit or small candies do before baking
- to make wreaths: use the star plate. hold the press in a horizonal position.. I decorate the top of the wreath with a 1/2 red cherry and then cut a green cherry in 1/4th and put 1 piece on each side of the red cherry
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I'm just like Krum, can't get the cookie off the form. But the daughter wasn't happy with the kinds I made this year, she wants her spritz cookies. I'll be in the dog house until I get these made. LOL....nice post, any hints would help.
notyourmomma
in South St. Petersburg loved it
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