These Cream Cheese Spritz cookies are so delicious and as far as Christmas treats go – they are really frugal!
Cream cheese is on sale for $0.99 or less this time of year and you only need 1/3 of a block for one batch, the dough makes a lot of cookies and they don’t require a lot of extras – just some sprinkles and they look beautiful, thanks to the shapes you can make with the cookie press.
This recipe does use a Cookie Press, which I have from my days of selling Pampered Chef, but you can use any brand of cookie press. Amazon carries quite a few brands and styles of cooke presses, but the reviews seem to be so-so. Do you have a favorite brand of cookie press?
- 1 cup of butter (softened at room temperature)
- 3 oz of cream cheese (also softened)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 2½ cups flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Using mixer blend together butter and cream cheese until creamy.
- Add sugar and mix well until light and fluffy.
- Mix in eggs yolks, vanilla and almond extract.
- Slowly add your flour and salt, mix well.
- If you want to add food coloring, you can take a small part of the dough or all the dough and add food coloring for desired color.
- Shape dough into a small log and add it to your cookie press.
- Press cookies onto an ungreased cookie sheet (sometimes if you freeze your cookie sheets first the cookies will stick better).
- I recommend adding sprinkles before you bake – otherwise you’ll need to frost them to get the sprinkles to stick.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, until they start turning a light brown around the edges.
- Let cool and eat!
My 5-year-old son helped me make the cookies. He has a “field journal” (a notebook) he has been doing lately and he copied the recipe into his book. It’s good practice writing and learning how to read a recipe.
We hope you enjoy this recipe! The elf in the photo is Jack Jingle, our Elf on the Shelf (Amazon link).
Inspired by this Wilton recipe.
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