21. Simple Spritz Cookie

Ingredients:

• 2 1/4 cups Flour
• 3/4 cup Sugar
• 1 cup salted Butter (if using unsalted butter, add 1/2 tsp salt)
• 2 Egg Yolks
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• Colored Food Dye (if desired)
• Sprinkles if desired (if desired)

Instructions:

1. Sift together flour & salt (if you used unsalted butter)
2. Cream together sugar & butter.
3. Add egg yolks & vanilla.
4. Stir in the sifted flour.
5. Beat well.
6. Add food coloring if desired. If you want more than one color, divide the dough, add 6-8 drops of food coloring, mix very well.
7. Chill dough for 1-2 hours.
8. Preheat oven to 400°.
9. Load dough into your cookie gun (assembled according to the directions of your cookie dough gun manufacturer).
10. Decorate if wanted – sprinkles are best as they melt and don’t make a mess.
11. Bake 7-8 minutes, until bottoms are lightly brown.
12. When you pull the sheets out of the oven, allow to cookies rest on cookie sheet 1-2 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
13. These Spritz Cookies freeze extremely well.

Makes 4 dozen Spritz Cookies

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Originally posted 2019-03-12 14:01:47.

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