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Spritzgeback (German Spritz Butter Cookies)

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: baking, easy, german, recipes for cookies, recipes for dessert, recipes using baking powder, recipes using butter, recipes using egg, recipes using powdered sugar, recipes using wheat flour, recipes with images, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ASpritzgeback_%28German_Spritz_Butter_Cookies%29)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ASpritzgeback%20%28German%20Spritz%20Butter%20Cookies%29&oldid=4587264

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • ⅔ cup confectioners' sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 tsp almond, vanilla, or lemon extract
  • 2 ¼ cups unbleached unsifted flour
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp baking powder

Directions

  1. Beat butter and sugar until light.
  2. Beat in egg, egg yolk and extract.
  3. Sift flour, salt, and baking powder together; gradually add flour mixture to eggs.
  4. Chill dough for ½ hour.
  5. Press ¼ of the dough into a cookie press.
  6. Keep remaining dough chilled.
  7. Shape cookies onto a greased baking sheet.
  8. Bake in oven at 400°F for 7–10 minutes or until done.
  9. Cool on wire racks and store in airtight tins.