Spritz Butter Cookies

Name: Spritz Butter Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: Makes Twenty-eight rosette or fifty-six star shaped 2 inch round cookies
Ingredients: pure vanilla extract; sugar; unsalted butter; egg; sea salt; cornstarch; blanched sliced almonds; bleached all-purpose flour; sugar sprinkles; pure almond extract; glacéed cherries

Preparation info

Makes
Twenty-eight
rosette

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
10 min

Appears in

The Baking Bible

By Rose Levy Beranbaum

Published 2014

About

This traditional Christmas cookie is one that I enjoy year round, so when my delightful friend and fellow cookbook writer Sally Longo suggested replacing some of the flour with cornstarch, I was eager to try it. The result: a more delicate cookie that is also easier to pipe or push through a cookie press.

Ingredients

Cookie Dough

Makes 26.7 ounces/750 grams

	VOLUME	WEIGHT

Cookies
Baking
Vegetarian
Christmas

Method

Preheat the Oven

Thirty minutes or longer before baking, set an oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat the oven to 375°F/190°C.

Toast the Almonds

Spread the alm