Quick Mix Spritz Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, stir cookie mix, flour, melted butter, almond extract and egg until soft forms.
• Fit desired template in cookie press; fill cookie press with dough. Force dough through template onto ungreased cookie sheets. Sprinkle with decors or colored sugars. Sprinkle with sugar crystals.
• Bake 6 to 8 minutes or until set but not brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack.

Steps:

• In large bowl, mix all ingredients at medium speed until well mixed. Cover and refrigerate for about one hour.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Use part of dough at a time, keeping the rest refrigerated.
• Using a cookie press fitted with a bar-plate tip, press dough in long strips, about one inch apart down the length of the cookie sheets.
• With a sharp knife, cut each strip into 2 1/2 inch pieces. Leave pieces in place. Bake 8 minutes or until light golden. Do not to overbake.
• Remove from oven and immediately cut again between cookies to separate any cookies which are still joined together.
• Move cookies to wire rack, and allow cookies to cool completely. Store tightly covered.

Steps:

• Sift flour, sugar, salt and baking powder together in a bowl.
• With a pastry blender or two knives, cut the butter into the flour mixture until it resembles pie crust or biscuit mix (very fine lumps).
• Crack an egg into a glass, liquid measuring cup. A large egg will measure 1/4 cup. If it doesn't, add water to reach the 1/4 cup line.
• Add the egg, water (if needed) and the vanilla to the flour mixture and beat the mixture well.
• Fill cookie press and form cookies on ungreased cookie sheets (aluminum preferred for best heat distribution).
• Bake at 375°F for 10-12 minutes or until cookies are just set or very slightly browned. Check cookies at the 10 minute mark and bake 1-2 minutes longer, if needed.
• Remove immediately to cooling racks.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F. 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.
• Place dough in cookie press. Form desired shapes on ungreased cookie sheet. Decorate with currants.
• 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.