06 Dec Cookie Friday: Spritz
All through December, we will be sharing a family favorite cookie recipe every Friday!
During the Holiday season traditions play an important role. Maybe it’s always getting your tree from the same place as a family. Reading the same book on Christmas Eve. Family movie nights. Church services. Volunteering. Black Friday shopping. Christmas light viewing. So on and so on.
One of my most dear traditions for Christmas is baking. My mom would bake the same cookies her mom made for the Holidays and it was a baking event. She would enlist our help with a few of the recipes and, by the end, the kitchen was always covered in cookies.
There was one rule though: No eating the cookies until Christmas Eve.
Talk about torture!
I love making the cookies my mom made, but I am willing to bend that rule.
All month long, I will be sharing some of our family favorites to help inspire your own baking events… and plates for Santa!
Spritz cookies are old school. They require a cookie press. I have this one and it makes all sorts of shapes like trees, poinsettia’s and wreaths, just like my mom would create. But, they are simple, easy to make and fun to decorate with sprinkles. They are also not too sweet, so in a season when you can get away with cookies for breakfast, they are just perfect.
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1-1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 2½ Cups Flour
- If desired:
- Food coloring, I use red and green
- Sprinkles
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- In a stand mixer bowl, cream butter, confectioners' sugar and salt until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and extracts. Gradually beat flour into mixture.
- (If using multiple colors of dough, separate the dough and mix in a couple drops of food dye.)
- Using a cookie press fitted with a disk of your choice, press dough 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. (I use a Silpat)
- Decorate with sprinkles as desired.
- Bake until set, 8-10 minutes (do not brown). Remove to wire racks to cool completely.
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