Simple Butter Spritz Cookies
These Simple Butter Spritz Cookies are a delicious Christmas tradition. Similar to shortbread cookies, Spritz Cookies are buttery and soft, but these also have a hint of almond flavour. Make them with a cookie press and add sprinkles to make them festive!
- Yield: 100 small cookies 1x
- Category: Cookie
- Method: Baking
Ingredients
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- 1 cup butter
- 1 1/4 cup icing sugar (powdered sugar)
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
- Using a stand mixer with the whisk attachment, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. About 5 minutes, making sure to scrape the sides often.
- Then add the egg, vanilla and almond extract, mix until creamy.
- In a separate bowl whisk together the salt and flour.
- Remove the whisk attachment from the stand mixer and use the paddle attachment for the next step.
- Then add the flour mixture to the butter mix and beat until just combined. Don’t over mix or your cookies will be dense.
- Using a cookie press (with your choice of stamp decoration), press the cookie dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet, spacing the cookies about 1 1/2 inches apart. Make sure to follow the directions for the set up of your cookie press.
- Decorate with sprinkles if you like.
- Bake for 6 minutes. The cookies should be slightly golden along the bottom edges, but the cookies should not be golden.
- Cool the cookies on wire cooling racks.
- NOTE: Make sure to cool the baking sheets between batches. When I do this I let the sheets cool enough that I can pick them up with my hands, then I put them in the fridge until I need them.
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