Holiday Wreaths With Cherries Spritz Cookies for Cookie Press
- Ready In:
- 5hrs
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
4 dozen
ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened to room temperature
- 3 ounces fat free cream cheese, softened to room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract, pure not imitation
- 1⁄2 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 4 dozen red maraschino cherries
- 1⁄4 cup decorator sugar, green color (or enough to coat cookies)
directions
- With an electric mixer (can be done by hand, but it's a lot of work!), cream butter & cream cheese until light.
- Add the granulated sugar to butter blend and beat until light and fluffy.
- Beat in egg yolk, vanilla, and almond extract.
- In a separate large mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients (flour, baking powder and salt).
- Gradually blend in flour with creamed butter mixture.
- Chill dough for minimum 4 hours.
- After dough is chilled, preheat oven to 350°F.
- Add chilled dough to cookie press, use wreath shaping disc.
- Press cookies onto lightly greased cookie sheet or baking stone (baking stone recommended).
- Sprinkle green decorator sugar (granulated) over cookies.
- Add 1 cherry in middle of each wreath.
- Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until slightly browned. Do not over bake
- Let cool on wire cooling rack before serving.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
ARathkamp
United States