The Best Spritz Cookies Recipe! This classic spritz cookie recipe is easy to make with only a few ingredients. Delicious and pretty!
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With this easy spritz cookie recipe, you'll get delicious, light cookies every time.
This is my Gram's spritz recipe and it's seriously the best! Made with simple ingredients, they're perfectly crisp and sweet - you'll love them!
In need of some delicious cookie recipes for your next party? Try these Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies, Andes Mint Chocolate Cookies or Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cookies.
What is a spritz cookie?
Spritz cookies are typically a butter or crisco based cookie that are made with a cookie press.
What is the difference between a spritz cookie and a shortbread cookie? Spritz cookies and shortbread cookies have very similar ingredients, however, spritz cookies contain an egg which helps them maintain their shape and not become crumbly as shortbread cookies do.
What You'll Love About Spritz Cookies
- Delicious: Even though these cookies are simple, they're perfectly sweet
- Cheap: Pantry staples make this cookie a budget-friendly recipe to put together.
- Fun to make: Using a cookie press is different from regular drop cookies which makes them so fun to make!
Spritz Cookie Recipe Ingredients
Here's what you'll need to make these cookies
- Shortening or butter
- white sugar
- egg
- vanilla extract
- baking powder
- salt
- all purpose flour
Here's a link to the cookie press we use!
How to Make Spritz Crisco Cookies
- Mix together shortening and sugar.
- Add egg and vanilla extract, mix until combined.
- Stir in baking powder, salt and flour.
- Gently press the cookie batter into a cookie press.
- Use the cookie press to form spritz cookies, placing on an ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake at 350 for 7-9 minutes until the cookies are slightly golden brown on the edges.
Best Spritz Cookie Recipe Storage
How long will spritz cookies stay fresh? : Freshly baked spritz cookies will stay fresh at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 3 days and even longer in the refrigerator.
Can I freeze these cookies?: Yes! To freeze baked spritz cookies place them gently in a freezer-safe container layering parchment paper or wax paper between the layers. These cookies will freeze for up to 3 months.
Freezing Cookie Dough: You can't freeze this cookie dough. it does not freeze well.
Spritz Cookies Recipe Variations
Shortening: Shortening can be substituted for butter or butter-flavored shortening.
Sugar: We don't recommend substituting white sugar unless you have to, but White sugar can be used interchangeably with brown sugar. You can add 1 teaspoon of molasses to white sugar to make brown sugar. Check out this post on Sugar Substitutes for Baking for other ideas.
Eggs: We don't recommend substituting eggs, but you can read this article on Egg Substitutions for Baking if you need to substitute. Try it at your own risk!
Vanilla Extract: Helps to add flavor, we don't recommend substituting.
Baking Powder: Baking powder is essential for this recipe. Do NOT substitute with baking soda.
Salt: Helps to add and balance flavor, we don't recommend substituting.
All Purpose Flour: We don't recommend substituting the flour, but you can check out this article on Cake Flour vs. All-Purpose Flour or Substitutions for All-Purpose Flour
How to use a Cookie Press:
Firstly, when using a cookie press you'll want to make sure that the recipe is specifically a spritz cookie recipe. Otherwise, you will likely have a hard time pushing the cookie out of the press.
Once you've filled the tube with the dough and have secured the press you can simply squirt out your shapes onto an ungreased, unlined baking sheet.
If you want different shapes, you can also swap out the disks without having to remove the cookie dough.
Making Spritz cookies without a press:
If you don't have a cookie press on hand, you can still enjoy these buttery cookies without one.
The best way to replicate a pressed cookie is to pipe the cookie dough out of a piping bag. Because cookie dough is firmer than frosting which is typically used in a plastic piping bag, piping cookie dough is recommended to be piped from a canvas piping bag.
Spritz Cookie Decorating Ideas
Here are a few ideas for how to decorate your spritz cookies:
- Make Sandwich Cookies - Fill with your favorite frosting or even a chocolate spread.
- Sprinkles or Edible Glitter - Before baking add some sprinkles or edible glitter to your cookies. If you plan to drizzle any icing on your cookies after you can wait to add the sprinkles or glitter until then.
- Chocolate - Dip, drizzle, or dunk your cookies into some white or milk chocolate.
- Food Coloring - Color your cookie dough with food coloring. Try multiple colors for a tie-dye effect.
Spritz Cookie FAQs
Not using enough flour in your cookie dough could result in it not coming out smooth or clean. You don't want our dough to come out of the press quickly, the cookie dough needs to be firm enough to hold its shape through the press.
Spritz cookie dough should be soft, yet still firm enough to hold its shape after being pressed out onto the baking sheet.
Spritz cookie dough does not require refrigeration before baking. You can store baked spritz cookies in the refrigerator to maintain their freshness longer but isn't required.
Yes, like most cookie doughs you can also make this spritz cookie dough ahead of time and store it in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
It's recommended to mix spritz cookie dough by hand to avoid overmixing. Overmixing your cookie dough will result in tough cookies.
More Classic Cookie Recipes
- Homemade Sugar Cookies
- Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies
- Raspberry Linzer Cookies
- Pecan Snowball Cookies
- Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies
- Best Snickerdoodle Cookies Recipe
- Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
- Gingersnap Cookie
Spritz Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup shortening
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 ¼ all purpose flour
Instructions
- Mix together shortening and sugar.
- Add egg and vanilla extract, mix until combined.
- Stir in baking powder, salt and flour.
- Gently press the cookie batter into a cookie press.
- Use the cookie press to form spritz cookies, placing on an ungreased baking sheet. (it will be very difficult to use the cookie press on a parchment lined or greased baking sheet)
- Bake at 350 for 7-9 minutes until the cookies are slightly golden brown on the edges.
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