Spritzgeback (German Spritz Butter Cookies)

Name: Spritzgeback (German Spritz Butter Cookies)
Total time: 175 min
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

Spritzgebäck is a type of German cookie.

175 min

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

Steps

Beat butter and sugar until light.
Beat in egg, egg yolk and extract.
Sift flour, salt, and baking powder together; gradually add flour mixture to eggs.
Chill dough for ½ hour.
Press ¼ of the dough into a cookie press.
Keep remaining dough chilled.
Shape cookies onto a greased baking sheet.
Bake in oven at for 7–10 minutes or until done.
Cool on wire racks and store in airtight tins.

More recipes with butter, powdered sugar, eggs, almonds, vanilla, flour or baking powder

Adapted from “Spritzgeback (German Spritz Butter Cookies)” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.