Food!: Spritz Cookies

Growing up I used to love making Spritz Cookies. They were easy and fun. But I haven't had a cookie press in a long time. So I put one on my wishlist and lo and behold my grandma got it for me! Ironically it was part of my boyfriend's birthday presents since I said it was to make him cookies. So today on my day off I made some. They are really easy to make.

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup sugar

2 1/4 cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 egg

1/4 teaspoon almond extract or vanilla

Directions

Heat oven to 400ºF. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour, salt, egg, almond extract.
Place dough in cookie press. Form desired shapes on ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake 5 to 8 minutes or until set but not brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.

For decoration I take confectioners sugar mixed with a little bit of water and food coloring and dip the cookie in that. The recipe as it stands makes roughly 70-80 cookies.