Spritz Cookies

Spritz Cookies are made with a cookie press, which easily produces cookies with unique shapes. A cookie press is a device where cookie dough is fed through a cylindric tube and pressed through a plate containing a design. There are many different plates available containing many different designs, including hearts, stars, flowers, trees, animals, numbers, letters, shapes, characters, and much more. My set contained 24 different plates: ten numbers, two flowers, a heart, a fish, a tree, two circles, and six other concentric shapes. My set also contained six tips so the cookie press can also be filled with icing and used to decorate cupcakes. I recently received my cookie press as a gift, and decided to try it out. Pressing cookies is a bit of extra work, takes a bit of muscle, and is a little frustrating at times, but it makes very unique, professional-looking shapes very quickly. It is not my first choice when making cookies, I prefer those hand-rolled, but it is a nice change. The spritz cookies also had a very nice, crisp flavour and texture. Next time I will try chocolate spritz. Spritz, a basic sugar cookie, is the traditional dough used in cookie presses, but it is possible to use other cookie doughs as well. The dough must be fairly stiff, and it should not contain ingredeints such as chocolate chips or raisins, which may not go through the plates evenly. Other than that, feel free to experiement!