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Today is already the 3rd Advent and I am finally starting my Christmas baking. First up, Spritzgebäck, a very traditional German Christmas cookie. The dough gets shaped by pushing it through a cookie press, creating a cookie that is very fragile and buttery, with a tasty hint of lemon and vanilla.
Hope you are also all done with your Christmas shopping ( I am!!) and are able to relax at home in front of the fire place with a cookie, like this Spritzgebäck, and a cup of tea.
Frohe Adventszeit!
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Recipe type: Christmas Cookies
Cuisine: German
Author: Kirsten| My Ktchen in the Rockies
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Ingredients
- ¾ cup 3½ Tablespoons (220 g) unsalted organic butter, at room temp.
- ½ cup 2 Tablespoons (80 g) powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon (5ml) vanilla extract
- 1 organic egg, at room temp.
- 1 organic egg yolk, at room temp.
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- 2 cups 1½ Tablespoons (250 g) organic flour
- ⅓ cup 1 Tablespoons (50 g) organic corn starch
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 F convection. Line Baking sheet with silicon pad or baking paper.
- Mix cornstarch and flour, set aside.
- In a stand-mixer cream butter and sugar on medium high speed(about 4 mins).
- Add egg and egg yolk, mix well.
- Stir in lemon zest and vanilla.
- Slowly add the flour mixture to the butter mixture with stand-mixer setting on slow. Combine well.
- Transfer dough in a cookie press and press the dough into preferred shapes onto the prepared baking sheets.
- Bake for about 10 minutes or until the cookies are golden.
- Cool on rack and store in cookie boxes. Enjoy!
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Such lovely cookies!
Done with holiday shopping? I haven’t even started yet! I used to make these cookies with my mom & sister at Christmas time and loved cranking her old cookie press to shape them, scooping bits of dough into my mouth if I didn’t quite press enough dough through to form a perfect cookie. We always sprinkled them with red and green sugar, and they rarely lasted long. Happy Holidays to you and your family!
These look lovely Kirsten. I would love to have 1 or 6 of these with a cup of tea in front of the fire. I am finished with my shopping but not with my mailing, aargh!
These look so delicious. I have never baked during the Christmas season, but we did start a tradition this year to bake for friends and neighbors who celebrate Christmas. It’s such a lovely tradition.
I’ve always wanted a cookie press! These cookies are enchanting, and they make me want to stop what I’m doing and make a cup of tea and eat one by the fire.
This is one of my favorite cookies