Recipe: Tasty Short Bread Spritz Cookies

Short Bread Spritz Cookies. What sets spritz cookies and shortbread cookies apart, then, comes down to one ingredient and shaping methods. Spritz cookies are tender and have an enriched dough. You can take most spritz cookie and shortbread recipes and side by side the only difference in ingredients is a single egg.

I lost my recipe book for the Super Shooter and found most spritz cookie recipes to be too stiff to work in my machine. I found this recipe through Google searches at www.christmas-cookies.com. In a medium mixing bowl, cream together butter, confectioners' sugar, and vanilla until smooth with electric mixer. You can cook Short Bread Spritz Cookies using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Short Bread Spritz Cookies

1. You need 1 cup of butter, softened.
2. It's 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of powdered sugar.
4. You need 6 tbsp of cornstarch.
5. You need 1/8 tsp of salt.
6. You need 1 1/2 cups of flour.

Shortbread Cookies are a soft, crumbly, and classic buttery Christmas cookie that melts in your mouth. These easy cookies are made using a cookie press to create perfect holiday bites. When I bite into one of these delicious shortbread cookies, it just brings me back to my Grandma's kitchen filled with Nanaimo bars, sugar cookies and these beauties.. Sift flour with cornstarch and salt in a medium bowl.

Short Bread Spritz Cookies step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter, vanilla & powdered sugar on medium until mixed..
2. Add in cornstarch, flour, and salt. Beat just until combined..
3. Place dough into cookie press and press onto an ungreased pan. Add sprinkles or colored sugar if desired..
4. Bake 9-11 minutes or just until done. Immediately transfer to a wire rack to cool. If you don't have a cookie press, you can make small balls about 3/4" and press flat with fork. You can also use a pastry bag and a piping tip and make little circles or squares..

Lightly flour a work surface, and roll out the dough until it's about a half inch thick. You can use a knife, a pizza cutter or a bench scraper to do this. Place about an inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet and prick with a fork to get that signature Scottish shortbread. Place butter in a large mixing bowl and mix with a wooden spoon until very creamy. Add confectioners' sugar, lemon juice, and flour mixture; mix until well combined. -Spritz cookies can be sandwiched together with buttercream or other fillings like these cinnamon spritz cookie sandwiches. -Storage:To freeze unused cookie dough, wrap in plastic and place in a resealable bag.