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Spritz Sugar Cookies

Today we decided to begin the new year with a new technique of baking. We’re making spritz cookies! Many of you may have never heard of what a spritz cookie is, neither had we. For Christmas we received, what we call, a cookie gun. This is probably one of the coolest and easiest baking tools on the planet! Let’s get spritzing!

Ingredients:

Sugar Cookie

  • 1 cup butter (2 sticks)
  • 1 egg
  • 2 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp almond extract (optional)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt

Royal Icing

(with no meringue powder)

  • Almost 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 3 egg whites
  • 1 tsp lemon juice

 

  1. Pre-heat your oven to 350 F. Then grab a big cookie sheet, but don’t line it with parchment paper.
  2. Then in a bowl cream together your butter and sugar. Then once mixed add your vanilla extract, egg, and almond extract. Then mix until it’s all combined together.

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3. Then add in your flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

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4. Then you will stuff your cookie gun with some of your dough, and punch out different designs onto your pan.

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5.  Once the pan is filled put them in the oven to bake for 10 minutes. Once baked, pop out of the oven let cool on a drying rack or a cutting board.

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6. While they are cooling, repeat steps 4-5 over and over until you’re out of dough.

Royal Icing

  1. Then start preparing your royal icing. Mix together all your ingredients until stiff peaks start to form.

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2. Then put some icing into your piping bag with a Wilton 3 tip. Start creating little designs on your cookie to your preference. Then you can always add a few sprinkles! (Usually, spritz cookies are plain with sugar, but we wanted to do something a little different, but we still have some plain ones as well.)

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Ta-da! They’re done!