Spritz Cookies Recipe (Swedish Butter Cookies)

What's Cooking America » Cooking Articles » Dessert Recipes » Cookies » Christmas Cookies » Best Spritz Cookie Recipe Recipe Comments Print Spritzgeback Cookies –Swedish Butter Cookies –Pressed Butter CookiesSpritz Cookies are crisp,fragile, and buttery tasting. What Christmas holiday cookie plate would be complete without these classic Spritz Cookies? My mother made these every Christmas season since I was little, and I make them now. Spritz cookies are a Christmas tradition in my family.Spritz cookies are traditional Christmas cookies in Scandinavian countries. They are simple butter cookies, shaped by putting the dough through a cookie press. The name comes from the German word spritzen, meaning “to squirt” because the soft dough is squirted or pushed through a cookie press to make fancy designs. A Norwegian tradition is to make them in shapes of S’s and O’s. Children love to help make and decorate these cookies.More favorite Cookie Recipes and Secrets To Making Perfect Cookies. Als...