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Spritzgeback (German Spritz Butter Cookies)

Spritzgeback (German Spritz Butter Cookies)
MarkTraceur · Own work · CC BY-SA 4.0 · View on Wikimedia Commons

Spritzgebäck is a type of German cookie.

Time
Prep: 45 minutes / Cooking: 10 minutes / Total: 2–3 hours
Yield
4–6 dozen cookies

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
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Method

  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 for 7–10 minutes or until done.
  9. Cool on wire racks and store in airtight tins.

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