Taste of Home
Cream Cheese Spritz
TOTAL TIME: Prep: 15 min. Bake: 10 min./batch
YIELD: about 6 dozen.
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! —Sarah Bedia, Lake Jackson, Texas
Ingredients
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1 cup shortening
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3 ounces cream cheese, softened
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1 cup sugar
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1 large egg yolk, room temperature
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1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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1 teaspoon grated orange zest
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Green food coloring, decorator candies and colored sugar, optional
Directions
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1.
Preheat oven to 350°. Cream shortening, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla. In another bowl, whisk together flour, salt and cinnamon; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in orange zest. If desired, add food coloring.
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2.
Using a cookie press fitted with a disk of your choice, press dough 1 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Decorate with candies and colored sugar as desired. Bake until set (do not brown), 9-12 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.
Nutrition Facts
1 cookie: 56 calories, 3g fat (1g saturated fat), 4mg cholesterol, 20mg sodium, 6g carbohydrate (3g sugars, 0 fiber), 1g protein.
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