You may have noticed no post yesterday. I decided to use the day to proof read and fix some typos on the older posts. Ironically, it turns out it was 8:30 PM before I got around to it. =/ It took two hours but I did read through all the posts. Hopefully, I caught everything that needed fixing.
A little while back, my cousin's daughter of four came over to be babysat. I thought it would be fun to make cookies with her. At first, I wanted to make sugar cookies but my mom suggested press cookies. So, I pulled the old cookie press out to see if it would still work. It looked like it would so that was decided.
We made the dough, and for some additional fun, decided to divide the dough up, mix it all different colors, and throw it all back into the big bowl to create rainbow spritz.
The effect was cool but sadly, our dough was too soft and the press didn't work too well. Our spritz cookies came out like blobs. In the end, I started to just roll the dough into circles.
Afterwords, my mom and I decided it was time to invest in a new cookie press. After a bit of research, I decided this one would do.
I tried a new recipe with the new press and it worked wonderfully. We put sprinkles (both store brought and homemade) on the cookies before baking them and the cookies turned out looking good and tasting great.
Recipe:
- 1 cup Soften Butter (2 sticks)
- 3/4 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 Egg
- 1/2 tsp. Vanilla
- 2-1/2 cups Flour
- 1 tsp. Salt
- 1/8 tsp. Baking Soda
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and brown sugar. Beat until it is creamy. Separate the egg. Add the yolk and vanilla. Reserve egg white in a bowl and set aside. Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda. Add it to the mixture and blend well.
Take the egg white, add about 1/2 tsp. of water and beat well to create an egg wash.
Shape dough into the rough shape of your cookie press and place inside. Press dough through desired cookie press disc onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Brush cookie tops with the egg wash.
You can add sprinkles to the cookies as desired.
Place cookies in oven for 8 to 10 minutes. When removed from oven, let sit 1 minute on cookie sheet and then gently loosen them. Remove cookies to wire rack to cool.
Baking Tips:
- There are two tricks to getting good spritz cookies. 1. Make sure your dough is the right consistency. It should be firm kind of like sugar cookie dough. 2. Make sure you are using a good cookie press.
- You can refrigerate the dough for a few minutes if it gets too soft.
- You can refrigerate the cookie sheets to help get the dough to stick better.
- Don't use parchment paper on your cookie sheets. The cookies won't press out well.
- You don't have to add any decorations to your spritz cookies. However, if you do there are several things you can do. You can color the cookie dough. You can add sprinkles before you bake your cookies. You can add sprinkles after you bake your cookies.
- Don't use sugar cookie dough in a cookie press. It might break. Make sure your dough is a spritz dough.
- Store brought spritz dough tends to be really hard. Some people complained that it broke their cookie press. I recommend making your own. It is really easy.
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