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Swedish Spritz Cookies

Holiday spritz cookies on a wire cooling rack
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Jmcanally/Shutterstock
Yield
about 4 dozen
Category
Course
Credit
Pauline Bauer Gustaf
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A delightful dance of buttery bliss! These melt-in-your-mouth wonders are a traditional Swedish Christmas recipe. The cookies are small, tender, and addictive. 

Note that this recipe is made with a “cookie press,” a fun kitchen tool that makes those cute fluffy shapes. Spritz means “to squirt” in German because you are squirting the dough using the cookie press onto a baking pan. The taste is similar to shortbread cookies but has an even more melt-in-the-mouth taste since you don’t have to chill or handle the dough.

If you’d prefer not to order a cookie press, then here is our recipe for shortbread cookies.

Ingredients
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, at room temperature
2/3 cup white sugar
3 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract
2-1/2 cups all-purpose white flour, sifted
Instructions
  1. Cream the butter. Add the sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla and beat well. Stir in the flour. Form the dough into four balls. Chill thoroughly.
  2. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
  3. Working with one dough ball at a time, put the dough in a cookie press and press out various designs and shapes onto ungreased baking sheets.
  4. Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown. Remove the cookies and place them on wire racks to allow them to cool completely.
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