Christmas Spritz Cookies

Christmas Spritz Cookies

I grew up with these cookies and had a difficult time trying to recreate them the way my mom made them. Then finally, we stumbled upon her old recipe with handwritten notes and all.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup Butter
  • 1/2 cup Shortening
  • 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 1 Eggs
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Almond Extract
  • 2 1/4 cup Flour
  • 15 drop Green Food Coloring

Instructions

  1. Heat Oven to 400 degrees
  2. Mix butter, shortening, sugar, egg, salt, and flavoring thoroughly.
  3. Work in the flour.
  4. Using 1/4 dough at a time, force dough through a cookie press on ungreased baking sheet in desired shapes.
  5. Bake 6-9 minutes or until set, but not brown.

One response to “Christmas Spritz Cookies”

  1. Greg Avatar
    Greg

    We usually double. It makes many dozen, but they are small cookies.

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