Holiday Spritz Cookies.

Remember? I promised I would give you the 'perfect pressed cookie' recipe. These have been standard at my house each year- even as a little girl while I was growing up. I loved watching my mom make them...now my kids watch me! They tend to overdo it on the sprinkles...but that's part of the magic of Christmas. It's just a bit more sugar, and a whole lot more fun!
So, without further ado, I give you Betty Crocker's Spritz Cookie recipe.
Ingredients:
1 cup of butter or marg (softened)
2/3 cup sugar
3 egg yolks
1 tsp. flavoring (vanilla, almond, peppermint, rum...)
2 1/2 cups flour
Directions:
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Mix butter, sugar, egg yolks and flavor thoroughly. Work in flour until well-combined. Divide dough and add food coloring, if desired at this time. (If dough is warm and soft, chill for a short time...if too cold it crumbles.) Using 1/4 dough at a time, force it through your cookie press onto an ungreased baking sheet. Bake 7-9 minutes or until set, but not brown. Makes about 6 dozen cookies.
I also made my own candy cane shapes by rolling green and pink dough into little ropes and then twisting them together (hence the peppermint flavoring if you like). Or simply roll them into balls and press them down with the bottom of a glass if you don't have a cookie press. Then add cookie press to your Christmas wish list and be good until next year. =)
Enjoy!
And now, because I spent time posting this recipe, fewer people will receive their Christmas cards and packages from me on time this year. I have to go work on that right now!!! Does anyone else think we should just bump Christmas a bit further into the future than next Monday?
But leave my birthday where it is. =) {It's this Wednesday, the 20th...so there's still time for you to send me Starbuck's gift cards online. Do they even do that? They should!}