Spritz Cookie Recipe WiltonSpritz Cookies, also known as Swedish Butter Cookies are a very popular Christmas cookie. They have a lovely vanilla flavor and a rich buttery texture that is tender. Spritz cookies with deformed features or overly browned edges will still taste great, but as with most simple foods, its the technique that holds the key to taking. This is the BEST sugar cookie recipe no chilling the dough, cookies keep their shape when baked, soft and flavorful, perfect for decorating. A wonderful collection of fully tested Christmas Cookies recipes with over 100 demonstration videos perfect for your holiday entertaining. The first is to cream the butter and the sugar. And I mean really cream that butter and sugar. A full seven minutes in the stand mixer is what were looking for to produce the lightest, crispest cookies possible. Not only that, but after adding an egg, you cream the mixture again for five to seven minutes. This is the key to that light yet rich texture and buttery flavor with no greasiness. Even more important than creaming is the way in which you incorporate the flour. Simply adding the flour to the stand mixer and beating it in runs the risk of overdeveloping gluten and giving you a tough or dense cookie not what you want after all that work with the creaming. Instead, the best method is to add the flour and mix it in by hand, stopping as soon as no dry flour remains. The final trick comes when youre actually pressing the cookies out using your spritz cookie press working directly on a baking sheet, and making sure that the baking sheet is cold. You dont want any spreading while the cookies bake, so nonstick spray, silicone, or parchment paper liners all of which are designed to enhance slipping are out of the picture. Plain old aluminum baking sheets are best, and keeping them cold as you work quickly to pipe out the cookies works in exactly the same way that chilling a pie crust before baking helps it retain its shape. Once youve nailed those steps, the rest is all window dressing. But nobody said you cant have fun dressing those windows.