One time I found one of those danish cookie tins empty and I took it upon myself to make a bunch of sugar cookies in the shapes of sewing supplies and filled said tin with the “sewing supplies”!! My family got a hoot out of it and I loved every minute of it!!
My mom had an actual piece of marble gravestone that she used for making pastries & confections. The local funeral home owner gave her a piece that was about 18 inches by 12 inches by 1 inch thick. It was HEAVY. She would chill it in the fridge before she made her piecrusts, butter rich pastries & a variety of candies. It actually made a difference & the quality of her baked goods was enhanced by using it. The marble board was an off-cut of a defective headstone. She swore that it made her baked goods better.
It would. It’s important when baking pastry to keep it cold which is what marble does very well. That’s also why it’s used as a work surface when working with hot sugar. Professional patissiers use marble slabs for that reason
@@paulinemegson8519 Nah its clearly cold grip of death infusing her pastries, causing them to become more flaky, better shaped, and melt less out of sheer terror.
Made dozens of batches of Spritz with my Grandma- we always found it helpful to chill the cookie sheets so the Spritz would adhere better to the surface.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who's ever been disappointed by a tin that supposedly contained Danish butter cookies, but instead contained sewing supplies... Our sewing box used to contain fancy Christmas chocolates!
@@gigatheprotogen When that IS the case, it's one of the best feelings! Now the only challenge is deciding whether to share, or... HOARD THEM ALL TO YOURSELF MWAHAHAAA! lol
There's one in my parents' garage that my grandparents brought with them when they moved in with us back in the 1970s.... It's been full of marbles since sometime in the early 1960s!
I grew up with these cookies! We always had candied cherries, cut in quarters, for the open center flower. Those are the ones my dad ate. Any time I made these (always during Christmas), and took some to work, my Co workers dubbed them "crack cookies" because they're so addicting. I highly recommend using butter over margarine, and definitely recommend real vanilla over imitation vanilla. I come from a long line of Norwegians, so alllll the butter cookies were baked for Christmas. By far, spritz and Russian tea cakes have always been my favorites.
Margarine? Margarine?? What is that foul sounding substance you mentioned? Lol Mine is a real butter using home, real vanilla i make myself and dare i say real milk from a cow, not juice pressed from a nut and called milk. I think our cooking would be very similar.
The flowers with the hole in the middle were my favorite. My mother would let us poke the center to seal it and add either a chocolate chip or a little dab of raspberry jam.
I'm German and bake Spritzgebäck every Christmas. Ours is a little different though, because we use a meat grinder with a special attachment for the Spritz part. This means it doesn't matter if the dough is a little more stiff, and I actually chill my dough most of the time and bake it off the next day. You commonly see Spritzgebäck in an 'S'-shape. It can also be bought in bakeries around Christmas time. Some recipes include coconut shreds or lemon zest and juice to mix it up a little.
these were my family's xmas cookies! one of my uncles would always break the dough into smaller batches and flavor some with peppermint, almond extract, or cinnamon. they take food coloring really well- the color gets very bright very quickly.
Yes, growing up we used the red and green food coloring at Christmas too!!! OMG I can taste them right now 🥰I have to make these this weekend for July 4 - call is Christmas in July😆
My mom and i would make them and add cocoa to them and sometimes mix in flavorings like orange or peppermint for Christmas and then cloves and cinnamon for Halloween - yes using the pumpkin one lol of course... and sometimes for christmas we'd use crushed peppermint and chocolate spirinkles.. yum!
Yes, I think everyone's grandma had one of those cookie presses with all the different designs and tips. I remember my grandmother having one, and I am 75 years old. The brand she had was "Mirro". Thanks for sharing your wonderful talents and creativity.
I heard about this. What a wonderful way to honor a loved one. I thought about making these the first time I saw the tombstone but never got around to it but will now. Thanks Emmy! You're awesome!!😊
I made these with my mom all the time growing up. Her recipe is pretty similar, but it uses almond extract instead of vanilla. We always use a tree-shaped die and colorful sprinkles when we make them for Christmas.
Love spritz cookies! Gram made Xmas trees with almond extract and green food coloring. Aunt Helen made cream cheese spritz wreaths with red food coloring. Good Memories!
It's true: every thrift store has at least one of these cookie presses in stock for just a few dollars. I think the last one I saw was even electric. Everybody gets one and then gives them away.
I have about three Spritz cookie presses, and the original recipe book for it. I like the chocolate log cookies and the vanilla ones with a cinnamon red hot in the middle. I sprinkle others with colored sugar or colored sprinkles.
This is the basic old fashioned spritz cookie recipe. I grew up helping my mother and grandmother make these every year for the holidays. My grandmother had a cookie press from that her mother brought to the U.S. from Poland. I actually got my very own child size press for Christmas when I was about 7. I was so excited to have my very own spritz cookie press just like mom and grandma.
You can also color the dough with food coloring. My mom did that when we made these. You can put in different flavorings also. Peppermint, almond, orange or any other flavor you prefer.
Spritz cookies bring back so many good memories of making Christmas cookies. We always said the one you called a "croissant" shape is a Christmas ornament shape.
I have a great spritz cookie recipe that looks a lot like this one and make bunches of them. The flowers get cinnamon dots (the candies called “Red Hots”) in the middle. Love them!
This brings back such fond memories of baking these for holidays with my grandma. I'm thankful to still have her around, and will definitely ask to make these next time we see each other. Delicious cookies that bring back childhood nostalgia. :)
My mom always made these for Christmas growing up, but her recipe had almond extract in it. I love that taste! She would add red and green dye to the dough as well.
Making these cookies is a holiday tradition in Egypt, where we call them by a French name "petit fours". I love them so this was super entertaining and heartwarming ❤
My mom and I used to make these kinds of cookies every year for the holidays! So wonderful to see someone else make them, brings back a lot of great memories ❤
Sprinkles, more sprinkles 🎉 I used to make spritz cookies at Christmas a long time ago. I still have the cookie press. It's probably old enough to be called an antique by now 😊
I used to have one of those cookie makers. The recipe book also had a recipe for butter mints that came out in really pretty shapes and would be perfect for a shower. I missed my grandmother’s butter cookie tin filled with sewing stuff, so I bought a tin of butter cookies one Christmas and made my own.
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We always made these for Christmas when I was growing up, more than 6 decades ago. We were normally a margarine family, so cookies made with real butter were a special treat. So good! My mom's aluminum cookie press, which dated back to the 1930s or '40s, didn't have a ratchet. The pressing disk was just attached to a rod with a handle you pushed. I still have that cookie press. It took a bit of practice to get the hang of knowing the right moment to stop pushing, so the ratchet looks like an improvement. We flavored ours with vanilla or almond. I liked almond best. I have sometimes made lemon flavored ones for springtime. Thanks for bringing back pleasant memories.
My great great grandma has made these cookies for years. She uses cacao and makes them chocolate. Then adds raspberry preserves to the bottom of one and adds another chocolate spritz yo make a sandwich cookie. Top them off with powdered sugar. The CHOCOLATE SPRITZ are so DELICIOUS!!! TRY them out. A must have for all holidays.
Don’t forget that you can always dip the cooked cookies into a bowl of melted chocolate but do only dip them so no more than half of the face is covered with chocolate.
Spritz cookies are so delicious! We usually do chill the dough a little bit when we make them though, so that it doesn't get all warm and stick to everything. Especially since our cookie press is the super old, metal, twist kind.
My husband makes these several times at Christmas. The recipe he uses calls for a bit of almond extract in addition to the vanilla. Absolutely delicious, everyone loves these cookies and they’re so cute.
Spritz were always the traditional Christmas cookie in my house. The one with the hole is for Hershey kiss or other candy center. It's also not a terrible idea to leave them unadorned and make jam sandwiches with them.
I love how in my family a lot of the women are known for a specific recipe. My nana is known for her Peach Delight and it is my favorite dessert ever! I am known for my pink lemonade cupcakes. My nana is almost 89 so I would love to have a family recipe book made in the next year so these recipes aren’t lost. One of my great aunts made the most delicious peanut butter fudge and she passed away suddenly and no one has been able to find her recipe.
Another cool thing about these presses is that if you mess some up you can mix them back into the dough, there's no reason to tolerate misshapen ones if you don't want to.
Love these. Like others mention, such fond memories wrapped in a simple treat. I've played with different flavors my favorite was lemon extract. But almond or maple were also yummy! Sub a little cocoa powder with mint extract for a surprise twist.❤
My mother used to make almond spritz cookies, for Christmas. Well…she quit when I was 9, but I still remember them well! That recipe will be amazing, of that I am certain! I loved decorating them with colored sugars…the silver dragée are my favorite!🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻💋💋🇺🇸🌸
My husband's family traditionally makes spritz cookies every year for Christmas. Only wreaths and trees were allowed, but we added the little flowers shown here. We're rebellious like that. I'll need to check the recipe against this one - ours was handed down from my husband's great grandmother. EDIT: Not remotely close lol. 3 egg yolks instead of one egg, different sugar/butt/flour ratios, and almond extract instead of vanilla. And no salt or baking powder.
Exactly! Our recipe is really close to butter, flour, and sugar amounts. Also 2 egg yolks and 1 whole egg. No salt but we use salted butter. And NEVER baking powder, these cookies don’t need to rise. Truth be told these are my FAVORITE cookies not just for Christmas.
@@marykay2461 3 egg yolks in ours. And yeah I was shocked that most of the recipes had baking powder. You definitely do NOT want them to rise. My in-laws were super particular about slivering the cherries - green and red, but the green cherries get a bit brown with age so you have to cut out some of the flesh. And the TINIEST of slivers, you practically need tweezers to place them. Needless to say, we don't bother with that in our house lol. Also, you have to let them just sit there for a few days to "age" a bit, they are good fresh but they really need to get that crispness that waiting a few days gives them. That's the hardest part of making them. 😀 Oh, tradition.
@@marykay2461 I had no idea that spritz were ever made without almond extract until I was in college and a friend's grandma had sent him some. When he offered to share I was SO EXCITED because I look forward to spritz every year. And then I bit into one. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't what I expected at all. 😁
We used to add a couple drops of food coloring to different bits of the dough. It adds to the color and festivity of the cookies. Especially good when creating Christmas trees or wreaths, or hearts, etc. It was always so much fun for the kids to decorate all the cookies for the holidays.
These look so cute and delish! I really want to try these but was wondering if you could just cut the dough with cookie cutters. Here's the ingredients to make to easier for people to try this recipe: 1 cup of butter or margarine 3/4 cup of sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 egg 2 1/4 cups of flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/8 teaspoon salt
My Mom would make spritz cookies for Christmas when I was growing up. She'd color portions of the dough before extruding it through the press, so we 'd have green, pink and yellow cookies. I loved them; they were dainty bite-sized, and perfect with all of the other holiday treats.
I was expecting this to be a chocolate chip cookie recipe because I’ve seen a headstone with that recipe. I love the idea and I’m happy to hear there’s more than one!
My mother used to make these in a meat grinder with a special attachment, so we called them meat grinder cookies at home. This way the shape is always long stripes with groves but it is a lot faster. Our neighbor added some lemon zest as well, definitely my favourite Christmas cookies!
Spritz are one of my favorite cookies. We have a crank style press. I have a cookie recipe that my Grandma made when i was growing up that is fantastic. Its a buttery sugar cookie type that is just so good. They are small like a spritz.... and you can't eat just one. They are addictive.
Some of the spritz cookie presses come/came (? mine is a vintage one i inherited from my mother) with a little schnauzer shape. They make the most adorable little fat puppy shaped cookies!
My mom has always made spritz cookies for the winter holidays, I love them so much! She adds just a touch of almond extract along with the vanilla which gives them a very fine flavor. As far as decorating goes, she'll do half with sprinkles, and then bake the other half without and frost them with piping tips and buttercream once they're cool - I love the buttercream ones, and it's fun to decorate more intricately with it Also! For the little five dotted die with the hole in the center, we'd usually use the colored sugar sprinkles, which melt and make a little colorful crunch bit in the center of the cookie :)
Love Spritz cookies. Mom made the ribbons with a press and placed a thin line of grape jelly running down the center...yum, inexpensive, and great filler cookies for Christmas presents
Many years ago when we lived in Canada,(lived in the U.K since '71), my Mum had one of those cookie makers, we had great fun making cookies when we were young but Mum said it was a real pain cleaning the extruder out, so she would roll the mixture in to a 6 - 8 inch log and wrap in baking paper and chill, then slice into disc's sprinkle with sugar or coloured sprinkles or tinny tiny coloured balls and bake. She would also put the wrapped logs of mixture in a freezer bag and keep some in the freezer so if we had surprise visitors or she had a coffee morning, she could pull one out slice away and within 30 minutes would have a plate of cookies to offer round with tea or coffee. B.T.W. she would always make them with butter as they give the best flavour. Sometimes once separated into batches weighing about 6 - 8 ounces, she would add other flavours, grated lemon or orange rind and a tbsp of juice, roll the log in cocoa powder or add tbsp dedicated coconut, then roll the log in the toasted coconut of course if you wanted to make the whole batch chocolate just add a couple of tbsps to the mixture with a couple of tbsps of milk else the mixture would be to dry.
