What holiday would dessert plate be complete without these incredible Christmas Spritz Cookies? These may be the most popular, classic Christmas cookies you’ll ever make. I have been making these Spritz cookies for years and they’ve become a traditional Christmas cookie recipe in our family.
A family bake-a-ton turned event, where all my kiddos enjoy making them with me. We like to all gather up in our big kitchen, put on some Christmas music on which puts everyone in a Christmas mood, humming tunes and shaping all kinds of different shapes of these little cuties.
They are simply butter cookies, shaped with a cookie dough press. These cookies just simply melt in your mouth. Add a cup of ice cold milk, kick up your feet and there is no other way to enjoy a wintery, snowy day by the crackling fireplace.
Ingredients you will need:
3 sticks – unsalted room temperature butter
1 cup – sugar
1 large – egg
2 tbsp. – whole milk
1 tsp. – pure vanilla extract
½ tsp. – almond extract
3 ½ cups. – all-purpose flour
1 tsp. – baking powder
Homemade No Cook Raspberry Freezer Jam
Christmas sprinkles decorations
You will also need Cookie Pro Ultra II Press
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 F. Thoroughly cream butter and sugar.
2. Add egg, milk, vanilla and almond extract. Beat well until smooth about 3 minutes on high speed.
3. Stir together flour and baking powder. Sift it into the creamed mixture.
4. Stir on low speed until all flour combined and the dough will look smooth in texture.
5. Do not chill. Place dough into Cookie Pro Ultra and press cookies onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
6. Decorate them with No-Cook Raspberry Freezer Jam or Christmas sprinkles of your choice. Bake one batch of cookies for 8 minutes at 375 F.
7. Let cookies cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing them from the pan to cooling rack. Enjoy!
- 3 sticks – unsalted room temperature butter
- 1 cup – sugar
- 1 large – egg
- 2 tbsp. – whole milk
- 1 tsp. – pure vanilla extract
- ½ tsp. – almond extract
- 3 ½ cups. – all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. – baking powder
- Homemade No Freeze Raspberry Jam
- Christmas sprinkles decorations
- You will also need Cookie Pro Ultra Press
- Preheat oven to 375 F. Thoroughly cream butter and sugar.
- Add egg, milk, vanilla and almond extract. Beat well until smooth about 3 minutes on high speed.
- Stir together flour and baking powder. Sift it into the creamed mixture.
- Stir on low speed until all flour combined and the dough will look smooth in texture.
- Do not chill. Place dough into Cookie Pro Ultra and press cookies onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Decorate them with No Cook Raspberry Freezer Jam or Christmas sprinkles of your choice. Bake one batch of cookies for 8 minutes at 375 F.
- Let cookies cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing them from the pan to cooling rack. Enjoy!
If you make this Christmas Spritz Cookies recipe please share the picture with me on Snapchat, Instagram or Pinterest. Tag it with #valyastasteofhome, I’d love seeing your creation. 🙂
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Nina
December 12, 2014 at 9:19 amThese are so pretty. I bet kids loved making them with mom, what a lovely childhood memory it will be for them.:)
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December 12, 2014 at 11:35 amNo kidding! Thant is so true! I remember making cookies with my mom too! Sweet memories! 🙂 Thank you Nina 🙂
Anna
December 12, 2014 at 10:40 amWow! Valichka, these cookies are a work of art. They look just to good to be eaten!!
You are right! What is better than homade spritz cookies on a snowy wonderful day by the fire?!
This is what I’m going to be making today! 🙂
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December 12, 2014 at 11:38 amThank you so much Anna! They are actually the easiest thing you can ever make! Let me know how much fun you had making them Anechka. 🙂
Ilona's Passion
December 15, 2014 at 10:45 amThese cookies are so adorable Valya!
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December 15, 2014 at 7:19 pmThanks Ilona! They are really good too! 🙂
Lyubomira
December 16, 2014 at 2:47 pmHow cute, these spritz cookies look delicious! Love the raspberry jam, too!
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December 16, 2014 at 3:39 pmThank you Mira! I’m with you! Homemade jam is the best 🙂
Renee
December 5, 2016 at 10:43 amI love Spritz cookies. I used to own an old Spritz cookie press that my grandma used to own but it stopped working unfortuanly. I’ve been looking everywhere for one this season and I can’t find one.I meen a good one. My question is can this dough be used like roll out,cut-out cookie dough ? Thanks in advance for a reply.
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December 5, 2016 at 11:37 amThis dough is too soft for roll out cut out cookies. See my sugar cookie dough recipe for roll out cookies here https://www.valyastasteofhome.com/easy-homemade-sugar-cookie-dough-recipe/. I’ve been using my spritz cookie press for over 10 years now and its still in really good condition. You can purchase the same one here. Thank you for your comment Renee.
Jennifer
December 14, 2016 at 9:35 amIs this recipe good for storing or freezing?
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December 14, 2016 at 10:12 amYes it is.
Jennifer
December 14, 2016 at 10:23 amIs it better to freeze the dough and bake later or is it ok to freeze the cookies?
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December 14, 2016 at 11:33 amI would rather freeze the cookies. The dough will get way to hard and it will be hard to use the spritz. Thank you for your comment. 🙂
Susan
December 16, 2016 at 3:56 pm🙂 This is the ONLY dough that I’ve been able to successfully get to work in my cookie press! Thank you!
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December 16, 2016 at 6:38 pmHi Susan! I am so happy to hear that! You are very welcome! Thank you very much for such an awesome feedback 🙂
Norma C.
November 9, 2017 at 1:59 pmThese look so beautiful!
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November 9, 2017 at 3:26 pmThank you! 🙂
Raya Lych
November 30, 2017 at 1:35 pmYour recipe is great. Tryied the spritz cookie recipe.
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November 30, 2017 at 2:17 pmI’m glad you liked the recipe. Thank you kindly for your feedback ?
Monica
December 2, 2017 at 9:46 amBeautiful and delicious need to get me one of those new cookie guns still got the old one thank you
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December 2, 2017 at 11:13 amThese little gems are super easy to make, and fun activity for the kids. I’m getting a new one as well with metal discs, because some of the plastic discs broke (kids use them too often;).
Lana Shpak
December 2, 2017 at 12:51 pmThanks for this wonderful Christmas idea!
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December 2, 2017 at 4:35 pmYou are very welcome, enjoy!
Aunt Tammy
December 14, 2017 at 10:41 amShouldnt there be salt in this recipe? This is the first one I’ve read not calling for salt.
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December 14, 2017 at 11:09 amYou can add pinch of salt if you’d like, but it’s not necessary. Salt adds a different taste to recipes and these cookies as well.
Darlene Gonzalez
December 16, 2017 at 4:37 amHi, I am going to try this recipe this year bit the recipe calls for 3 sticks of butter. Would that be 1 1/2 cups of butter? And mine are unsalted should I add any salt?
Thank you for your quick response ?
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December 16, 2017 at 10:19 amYes, 3 sticks of butter equals to 1 1/2 cups. You can add a pinch of salt if you’d like.
Darlene Gonzalez
December 17, 2017 at 5:13 amThank you! I made the recipe yesterday and the cookies came out amazing. I will definitely stick with this one for years! Perfection!
Happy holidays!
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December 17, 2017 at 8:06 amAww…, that is so awesome!!! Im gla to hear that you like the recipe. Thank you for ther review! Have a blessed Holiday season!?
Samantha
December 17, 2017 at 9:24 amSo I’ve tried multiple recipes to no avail. Couldn’t get them to stick to the pan- total disaster. I haven’t tried them yet, but the dough is PERFECT and sticking perfectly. Thank you so much, this recipe is amazing!!
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December 17, 2017 at 3:03 pmHi Samantha! I’m glag to hear that you found the recipe on my website that worked for you. I appreciate you sharing your experience with me! Happy baking, and enjoy the cookies! ?
Julia
December 6, 2018 at 4:54 pmUsually you can’t use parchment with a cookie press. How do you get them to stick?
Valya of Valya's Taste of Home
December 6, 2018 at 9:56 pmYou may or may not use parchment paper if you’d like. Recently I would just simply press them onto ungreased baking pan. I hope this helps.
Julia
December 7, 2018 at 2:56 pmYour recipe says to use parchment. I contend that you can not. They will not stick/form properly
Valya of Valya's Taste of Home
December 7, 2018 at 4:20 pmHi Julia! It’s hard to tell not seeing the process. If the dough not sticking then try not using parchment paper. If the dough is not coming out formed then you’re either pressing too much or not enough dough. You just have to play and find that middle so when you press them they stick to the lined pan with parchment paper or not. I’ve tried both ways and it worked for me. Let me know if you have any other questions.