no-fail spritz cookie recipe

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 TBSP milk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 tsp almond extract
• 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder

Directions

• Preheat oven to 375 F. Cream butter and sugar. Add egg, milk, and flavored extracts, beat well. Sift flour and baking powder, add to wet ingredients gradually to make a smooth dough. Add dough to cookie press and press cookies onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 10 minutes, or until lightly browned at edges. makes 8 dozen cookies.

Notes

• My darling sister in law, Emily, bought me a cookies press the first year John and I were married. This is our family’s favorite recipe for holiday cookies. They are wonderful with coffee. We find excuses to make them a few times throughout the year– Christmas in July anyone?

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