Ingredients for Spritz Cookies

Series Summary

The great thing about cookies is that you can eat them with your hands, they can be made out of a variety of sweet ingredients and you can decorate them with anything you want. Thanks to the discovery of sugar back in the Persian Empire, people have been making sweet desserts for centuries. Cookies are just one example of the goodness that sugar brings, but it might just be the best example of that goodness. Aside from sugar, cookies can have a variety of ingredients to give them a unique flavor, including spices, chocolate, butter, peanut butter, nuts or dried fruit. While chocolate chip cookies are the most well known of cookies, sugar cookies, peanut butter cookies and snickerdoodles are also popular favorites.

In this free video series, our expert will teach you how to make a delicious spritz cookie recipe. You will learn each easy to follow step for mixing the dry and wet ingredients, adding sugar and butter and coloring the cookie dough. Get tips for using and filling a cookie press, as well as advice on decorating and baking this easy cookie recipe. If you are looking for a fun and easy holiday cookie recipe, let our expert show you how to make spritz cookies.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jennifer Cail and on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you how to make these beautiful delicate, delicious spritz cookies. First step for making our spritz cookies is to go over the ingredients. First, we'll be using some flour and sugar. These of course are the main ingredients for our cookies along with butter. We'll be using 3/4 of a pound, which is equal to a cup and a half of butter and then some baking powder. For flavor we'll be using vanilla and almond extract, one egg and then the rest of it is purely up to your imagination. I'm going to be using some food coloring for coloring the dough and also some various sugar sprinkles to sprinkle on to the cookies for extra decoration. And then one of my favorite things is edible glitter. All of these will help create your spritz cookies which are a fun tasty treat for Christmas."