One year we went house to house learning how to make a special cookie from each family in our troop. Colleen taught us how to make Spritz cookies. They were fun because you got to squeeze them out of a cookie dough gun and pick different plates to make different shaped cookies.
Colleen’s Spritz Cookies
1 cup butter softened
1/2 cup sugar
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (do not use self rising flour in this recipe)
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
1 tsp. almond or vanilla extract
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Mix butter and sugar. Mix in remaining ingredients. Place dough in cookie press; form desired shapes on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until set but not brown, 6 to 9 minutes. Immediately remove from cookie sheet. Makes about 5 dozen cookies.