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These easy Spritz cookies are a great way to spend some time in the kitchen baking with your kids this holiday season!
Dreamy cookie smells wafting out of the kitchen will bring them running in.
Christmas is almost here! Just a few more weeks to get your shopping done, put up decorations and plan your day.
Did you remember to bake cookies? If not, no worries. These cookies are super easy! love a good spritz cookie recipe. They’re a basic, buttery cookie that you can make a ton of very easily.
This is a great recipe to make for cookie boxes to give to friends. Or for eating at home, whatever.
I love how easy the recipe is to scale up for big parties of kids in the kitchen, or keep as is. But my favorite part is seeing which disk the kids choose, and what crazy decorating combos they pull off!
You can obviously choose to not decorate them at all, and give friends a plain box and some frosting/candies as a gift that is also an activity!
Know your friends, though. Some of my friends would wonder “what do I do with THIS?” Others would be overjoyed that I provided an activity for them and their family to do.
However you do it, just do it. You’ll love this recipe, I promise!
Why are they called Spritz Cookies?
The name originates from the German word “Spritzen” which means “to squirt” in English. This makes total sense, since we literally squirt the batter out of a cookie press!
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If you DON’T have a cookie press, and still want to try these, you could use a small cookie scoop and just add blobs of dough to a cookie sheet, then flatten a little. They won’t be as pretty but they will taste the same!
Why this recipe works
- It’s an easy recipe that you can double, triple or quadruple.
- If you have more than one cookie press, you can have multiple kids make their very own tray of Spritz Cookies. So much fun for them to decorate and bake!
Kylee’s Notes & FAQs
Use room temperature butter! It makes creaming easier.
How to store cookies
Store in a covered container for up to a week, if they last that long!
Substitutions/Additions
You can use vanilla extract and almond extract or peppermint extract in your cookies. They’re yours, so do what you what makes you happy!
If you prefer – add 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon to the batter, or some cocoa powder.
Want to make different colored cookies? Add a little gel food coloring to your cookie dough and color it up!
These are also super delicious with some confectioners sugar dusted over the top.
Do you add sprinkles before or after baking?
I do it before, but you can also do a REALLY easy trick AFTER baking. Simply brush the cookies with some simple syrup, and and dip in sprinkles, or granulated sugar.
Simple Syrup: 1 cup of sugar, boiled with 1 cup of water to make a syrup.
Ingredients
The full list of ingredients and quantities is found in the printable recipe card below.
How to make this recipe:
Full, printable recipe below – just scroll down to the recipe card!
Get prepped
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Make the dough
- Combine the flour and baking powder in a large bowl and set aside.
- In an electric mixer on medium speed, beat the butter and sugar until pale, light and fluffy.
- Add egg, milk, vanilla extract and mix well.
- Gradually add the flour mixture to the butter mixture (1 cup at a time). Beat until combined and a soft dough forms.
Press the cookies and decorate
- Fill the cookie press with dough and attach a disk. Press the dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet. You may like to use parchment paper like I did, but it is not necessary.
- Decorate as you wish, or leave plain.
Bake & Cool
- Bake 10-12 minutes or until edges are light golden brown.
- Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Decorate with chocolate or frosting if desired.
- Devour.
More delicious cookies:
- Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies. Perfect chocolate chip cookies are the go-to, bees-knees, classic kind of cookie. Crispy, with a little chew, bursting with chocolate chips. Heaven.
- Triple Chocolate Cookies. These soft and chewy triple chocolate cookies are dangerous! They have 3 types of chocolate and are decadent and delicious. Grab a glass of milk!
- German Chocolate Cookies. German Chocolate Cake in cookie form! Soft, chewy chocolate cookies topped with a creamy, caramel/coconut/pecan frosting and drizzled with melted chocolate.
- ALL COOKIE RECIPES
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Christmas Spritz Cookies
Suggested Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1.5 cups butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 Tbs milk
- 1.5 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Combine flour and baking powder and set aside.
- In an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add egg, milk, vanilla and mix well.
- Gradually add the flour mixture to the butter mixture (1 cup at a time). Beat until combined.
- Fill cookie press with dough and choose a disks, press cookies onto ungreased cookie sheet.
- Decorate as garishly as possible… 😉
- Bake 10-12 minutes or until edges are light golden brown.
- Cool 2 minutes on cookie sheet, then transfer to cooling rack.
- Devour.
nutrition facts
Nutritional Disclaimer
Recipes written and produced on Kylee Cooks are for informational purposes only. Kylee is not a certified nutritionist. Nutritional data provided on Kylee Cooks has not been evaluated or approved by a nutritionist or the Food and Drug Administration.
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