Best 6 Almond Spritz Cookies Recipes

ALMOND SPRITZ COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars and fluffy. Beat in egg and extracts. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture and mix well. , Using a cookie press fitted with the disk of your choice, press dough 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. If desired, sprinkle with colored sugar. , Bake at 375° for 7-9 minutes or until edges just begin to brown. Cool on wire racks.

CHOCOLATE FILLED ALMOND SPRITZ COOKIES

Steps:

• On a baking sheet roast almonds until lightly browned, about 6-8 minutes, toss every 2-3 minutes Allow to cool to room temperature.
• FOOD PROCESSOR METHOD---------------------.
• Grind almonds and sugar in a food processor until very fine.
• Cut butter into 16 chunks, with the processor add butter a chunk at a time.
• Process until creamy.
• Scrape down bowl.
• Add egg and extract, process until mixed, scrape down bowl.
• Add flour and salt, pulse until just combined.
• Scrape into a bowl.
• ELECTRIC MIXER METHOD--------------------------°- .
• Whisk flour and salt in a medium bowl.
• Cut butter in to 16 pcs, Allow butter and eggs to come to room temperature.
• Grind almonds to a fine powder (can be done with a rolling pin and a plastic bag).
• In a second medium bowl cream butter, sugar until very light and fluffy.
• Add almonds, beat until well combined.
• Lightly beat egg and extracts, add to butter mixture, beat until just combined.
• Stir in flour and salt until just combined.
• BOTH METHODS---------------------.
• With a cookie press or pastry bag fitted with a no 22 tip, put cookies on parchment lined cookie sheets, about 1 1/2 inches apart.
• Decorate with colored sugar, etc.
• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Refrigerate Cookies on the sheet for 20 minutes, this will help them hold their shape.
• Bake cookies one pan at a time for 8-10 minutes (until very lightly browned), rotate pan halfway through the baking to promote even cooking.
• Allow to sit on sheet for 3-4 minutes, remove with an angled spatula to a rack.
• Cool completely.
• FILLING----------------------.
• Melt 3/4 of the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of hot water (160 degrees or so) (bowl must not touch water).
• When chocolate starts to melt remove from heat and stir until smooth, add remaining chocolate and stir until smooth.
• Let the chocolate sit until it's no longer warm to the touch and SLOWLY beat in the butter.
• Do not over beat this mixture.
• Place the mixture in a freezer bag (corner cut off) or pastry bag and pipe it on to the bottom of 1/2 of the cookies.
• Cover with second half to form a sandwich.
• Do about 10 at a time as the chocolate mixture will start to set up.
• Let cookies set for 2 hours for filling to set 100%.
• Store covered in an airtight container for about a month.

ALMOND CREAM SPRITZ COOKIES

Steps:

• Beat butter and cream cheese in a large mixing bowl until well combined.
• Add sugar, almond extract, and vanilla.
• Beat till combined.
• Beat in flour.
• Cover and chill dough for 30 minutes or till easily worked but not too stiff.
• Pack dough into a cookie press.
• Force dough through press onto ungreased cookie sheets.
• Sprinkle with almonds.
• Bake in a 375° oven for 8-10 minutes or till edges of cookies are firm but not brown.
• Remove cookies and cool on wire racks.

PISTACHIO SPRITZ COOKIES (ALMOND FLOUR)

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 °
• 2. Cream butter and sugars until smooth. Add egg and extract and mix well. Combine flour, ground almonds and pudding mix and add to creamed mixture.
• 3. Since there are ground nuts you need to use a dye design that has large openings on your spritz gun so the dough will squeeze through onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
• 4. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Remove to a wire rack to cool.
• 5. Once cooled ice with a powdered sugar glaze. I added green food coloring and topped with sprinkles.

ALMOND SPRITZ COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Creaming method. Blend the almond paste to a smooth, soft paste with a little off the egg. Add the butter and sugar, cream until combined. Then add the rest of the ingredients and beat until combined.
• 2. Makeup: Bagged method. Bag out with star tube to desired shapes (small) on parchment lined sheets. Garnish with toasted slices of almonds.
• 3. Bake at 175 degrees until the edges are just lightly browned.

ALMOND SPRITZ COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Beat margarine in mixer on med 30 seconds. Add 1 c flour, sugar, egg, powder, vanilla and almond. Beat until combined then add remaining flour. Force unchilled dough through a cookie press onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees 8-10 min or until edges are firm but not brown. Cool and ice if desired or sprinkle with chopped nuts or colored sugar. Chocolate spritz cookies can be made by reducing flour to 3 1/4 c and adding 1/4 c unsweetened cocoa powder to the sugar.
• 2. For Spritz Cookies (not almond) omit the almond.
• 3. Chocolate spritz cookies can be made by reducing flour to 3 1/4 c and adding 1/4 c unsweetened cocoa powder to the sugar.
• 4. Chocolate Almond Spritz, make dough as with the Chocolate Spritz and add 1 t almond extract.