Name: Swedish Spritz
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 cup butter, softened; 2/3 cup sugar; 1 large egg, room temperature; 1/2 teaspoon almond extract; 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; Prepared frosting, assorted sprinkles and decorating sugars

A touch of almond extract gives these spritz wonderful flavor. For Christmas, you could tint half of the dough with red food coloring and the other half with green. &amp;mdash;Irmgard Sinn, Sherwood Park, Alberta

Swedish Spritz

butter, softened

sugar

egg, room temperature

almond extract

vanilla extract

all-purpose flour

baking powder

Prepared frosting, assorted sprinkles and decorating sugars

This is nearly the same as the same Spritz cookie recipe that&#039;s been used in my family for 50 years. The only differences: use 3 egg yolks instead of 1 whole egg; no baking powder. The egg yolks make the cookie extra tender. In my family, it&#039;s not Christmastime until the Spritz cookies get made. I always make them green and use my  Christmas tree die for the cookie press. I carefully pack them in round tins and send them to my three brothers who live across the country...just like our mom used to do for the boys once they moved  away from &#039;home&#039;.

I have been using almond instead of vanilla for years in my spritz cookies. We also usually add a chocolate star to the middle of some of the shapes and then refer to them as andquot;belly buttonandquot; cookies. It just isnand#039;t Christmas without them.

These cookies are delicious and always a favorite on my holiday cookie tray. The dough works well with my cookie press. I also made them into witches fingers for Halloween. I colored the dough green. I formed the finger shape by rolling a ball of dough to 5" in length and 1/2" thick. I made shallow knife cuts for lines and knuckles then dusted those with chocolate milk powder. I took sliced almonds-which I had dyed in red food coloring-(just shake the almonds gently with the dye in a sealed sandwich bag) and used those for fingernails. They took 10 minutes to bake.

Swedish Spritz

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total: 30 minutes

Servings: 4

Cost: $10.36 /serving

Author : Taste of Home

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