The Ultimate Spritz

By carvalhohm

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract or vanilla
• Food color, if desired
• Currants, raisins, candies, colored sugar, finely chopped nuts, candied fruit or fruit peel, if desired

Preparation

Step 1

1 Heat oven to 400ºF. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour, salt, egg, almond extract and a few drops of food color.

2 Place dough in cookie press. Form desired shapes on ungreased cookie sheet. Decorate with currants.

3 Bake 5 to 8 minutes or until set but not brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. To decorate cookies after baking, use a drop of corn syrup to attach decorations to cookies.

Serves 72