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Cream Cheese Spritz Recipe

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A hint of orange and cinnamon highlights these Christmastime classics. I like to add colorful sprinkles before baking them. The recipe is from a booklet that came with a cookie press in the 1950s...and I still have the press!

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Cream Cheese Spritz Recipe

Prep: 15 min. Bake: 10 min./batch

Yield: 54 Servings

15 10 25

Ingredients

1 cup shortening
1 package (3 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon grated orange peel
Green food coloring, decorator candies and colored sugar, optional

Directions

In a large bowl, cream the shortening, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla. Combine the flour, salt and cinnamon; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in orange peel. Add food coloring if desired.
Using a cookie press fitted with the disk of your choice, press dough 1 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Decorate if desired. Bake at 350° for 9-12 minutes or until set (do not brown). Remove to wire racks to cool. Yield: about 9 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (2 each) equals 75 calories, 4 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 6 mg cholesterol, 27 mg sodium, 8 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein.

Originally published as Cream Cheese Spritz in Country Woman Christmas Annual 2002, p34

Sweet White Wine

Enjoy this recipe with a sweet white wine such as Moscato or a sweet Riesling.

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Reviewed on Dec. 15, 2011 by linsvin

This is the second year I made these cookies and it is my"go to" spritz batter. Batter holds up to the last cookie. If it starts spreading and losing it's sharpness just put cookie press in fridge for 5 minutes. I did use green food coloring and used the floral disc and sprinkled with red colored sugar. Looked like poinsettias! Used the Christmas tree disc and sprinkled green sugar. Very pretty and festive looking.