As promised! Another cookie recipe! These are, by far, my all-time favorite cookies. Gingerbread cookies are my second favorite. The boys always prefer home made cookies over store bought. So I’m always baking. Which is completely fine, because I love baking. Here’s my favorite Spritz recipe:
Ingredients:
1 cup softened butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
1tsp almond/vanilla extract
Optional: food coloring and/or sprinkles
Helpful hint: Make sure your butter and egg are the same temperature. It helps with the cookie press. If the butter has been microwaved to s
often, the dough becomes too runny. If the egg and butter are too cold, the dough doesn’t go through the press. I pull my egg and butter out of the fridge and leave them on the counter for a few hours prior to starting the cookies.
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 400. Cream butter and sugar, add salt and extract. Slowly add flour until incorporated. Fill cookie press with 1/4 dough at a time and press cookies onto a clean, dry cookie sheet (I make this mistake every year, I try to press the cookies onto parchment, it doesn’t work). Bake 6-9 minutes, until cookies are set, but not brown.
