Spritz cookies are so easy to make but they just get so boring sometimes! Does anyone have any different recipes??? I've tried one with cream cheese but I was looking for something else! Thanks!!!

This is the recipe we use every year.

Spritz Cookies

1 1/2 cups Sugar
2 cups (4 sticks) unsalted butter
2 egg yolks
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
5 cups flour (may need less)
1 tsp orange juice
2 tsp orange rind

Cream sugar and butter until creamy. Add egg yolks, salt, baking powder, orange juice, orange rind, and flour.

Push through cookie press on to ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 375* until golden brown.

We usually add some red and green sprinkles to the tree and other shapes. On the wreath shapes we use cut up candy cherries in the middle. You can also use M&Ms on the wreath shapes.

TexasSugar,

Those sound great, do you use a glaze or frosting on these?

Thanks, I love spritz cookies, they're on of my favorites and these sound really good. I think I'll put them on my "To Do" list.

Those do sound good! Anyone else have any others??

I have used the chocolate and lemon spritz recipes from the wilton yearbooks and they are good.

I haven't tried these yet, but I got them in an email and it sounded interesting.

Rosemary Cheese Spritz Cookies
From Food Network Kitchens

Recipe Summary
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Inactive Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Yield: about 4 dozen cookies
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1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
1 large egg yolk
6 tablespoons heavy cream
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup finely grated Pecorino cheese
1/2 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons minced fresh rosemary leaves
1 teaspoons fine salt
Pinch freshly ground nutmeg

Special Equipment: Cookie Press

Bring all ingredients to room temperature.

Beat the butter and lemon zest with an electric mixer at medium speed until smooth, about 30 seconds. Slowly beat in the egg yolk and cream.

Whisk the flour, pecorino, 1/4 cup of the Parmesan, sugar, rosemary, salt, and nutmeg together in a bowl. Gradually add the flour mixture into the butter mixture while mixing slowly. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, then beat on medium speed to make a slightly sticky dough. Fill the cookie press with the dough. Assemble the press with the desired disk shape (see cook's note), and press cookies onto ungreased baking sheets. Leave about one inch between cookies. Sprinkle with the remaining 1/4 cup Parmesan and refrigerate cookies for 20 minutes.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Bake cookies, rotating pan halfway through, until golden, the cheese browns a bit, and the cookies smell nutty, about 20 to 25 minutes. Briefly cool the cookies on the baking sheets, then transfer to racks to cool. Serve or store in a tightly sealed container for up to 1 month.

Cook's Notes: These freeze beautifully. Press the cookies out into desired shapes on cookie sheets and freeze. Transfer frozen cookies to a plastic bag, seal, and keep frozen for up to 1 month. When ready to bake, lay out frozen cookies on cookie trays and bake from frozen for 25 minutes.

Some disk shapes work better than others. Since this is savory cookie, we liked the cutters that result in a cracker shape cookie, like the ribbon, clover. Stars and and snowflakes work, too.

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I have a ton of spritz cookie recipes:
Here are a few variations


Basic Spritz Cookies
2/3 c sugar
1 cup butter
1 egg
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla
2 1/4 cup flour

Heat oven to 400° F
mix everything except flour at medium speed 2-3 mins until fluffy and light, scraping bowl as needed

Add flour-beat at low speed until well mixed 2-3 mins, scraping bowl as needed.

Place in cookie press. Press onto cookie sheets, 1 in apart. Bake 6-8 mins or until edges are lightly browned.


1) Chcolate chip: add 1/4 cup coarsley grated chocolate to basic spritz recipe

2) Mint Kiss: add 1/4 tsp mint extract, green coloring to basic recipe. Hershey's kisses- add Immediately after removing from oven place a kiss on each spritz.

3)Eggnog spritz: add 1 tsp ground nutmeg to basic recipe. After baking glaze while warm with: 1 cup powdered sugar, 1/4 cup butter--softened, 2 Tbs water, 1/4 tsp rum extract that has been stirred until smooth

4) Pumpkin: add up to 1/2 cup canned pumpkin pie mix to basic recipe (use more or less depending on the consistency of cookie you want) You can add pumpkin pie spices or glaze with a pumpkin pie spice glaze as well. We also drizzle them with dark chocolate.

5)Gingerbread Spritz: add 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp nutmeg, 1/2 tsp allspice, 1/4 tsp ground cloves to basic spritz recipe. For glaze: 1 cup powdered sugar, 2 TBS milk, 1/2 tsp vanilla mix til smooth and drizzle over spritz

7)Chocolate Chocolate: add up to 1/2 pound melted dark chocolate to basic spritz recipe (depending on the consistency and chocolate level you want to acheive). Drizzle with dark chocolate or white chocolate. Nutella drizzle is awesome, too.

Marzipan spritz: Add 100 grams Marzipan to basic recipe. drizzle with lemon, orange or raspbery glaze.

9) Pick your favorite fruit Spritz: Add pureed fruit to basic recipe (enough to flavor the cookie but not too much that it greatly alters the spritz consistency, amount depends on fruit used but you still need to be able to press them. Glaze with corresponding fruit glaze.

10) Bailey's: Add Bailey's to basic recipe, about 2 TBS, glaze with bailey's glaze (just add it to basic glaze recipe for the liquid)


You can use any of these variations with any basic spritz recipe /the sour cream ones or the cream cheese ones)

HTH

Spritz are the king of cookies here, so there are a billion other recipes if you need something different...let me know.

Wow those sound great!! My first few dozen batches of spritz cookies were great but then they got kinda boring. You can only change extracts so many times But those variations sound good! The spritz cookie may live again in our home!!! Thanks!

Oh the cookie shooter is the whole point! Otherwise I would never bother with spritz!

But like you said, those recipes actually sound good!

It seems like the only kind of cookies made here are spritz, or some variation of a spritz, lol.

Mamafrogs, you can add anything you want to the basic recipe (or any spritz basic recipe), just make sure you maintain the normal spritz consistency. One way to do this is to make a double batch, and then add in your add-ins. Another way is to just add a little at a time...spritz dough is pretty forgiving since it isn't a 'delicate' one.

You can add ground up snickers, mounds, reese's PB cups (or any other candy bar); any type of liquor: bailey's , kahlua, godiva chocolate, etc; PB&J;any fruit dried, canned or fresh finely chopped or pureed; pretty much anything you can put in a cake, cookie or pie, you can put into a spritz and make it work HTH