Cardamom Spritz Cookies
Cardamom Spritz Cookies are easy festive little Scandinavian Christmas cookies that will bring instant cheer to your house. Their colorful variety makes an instant holiday cookie assortment, so stamp them out by the dozen, and then watch them disappear!
Servings: 85
Equipment
- spritz cookie stamp this is the one I love.
Ingredients
- 1 cup cold butter, cut in cubes (2 sticks)
- 3 ounces cream cheese (not whipped) softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tsp vanilla paste (substitute vanilla or almond extract)
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground cardamom
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F and put your cookie sheet in refrigerator to chill.
- Cream the butter and cream cheese together until well blended. Add in the sugar, egg yolk, and vanilla (or almond extract,) beating until light and fluffy.
- Whisk together the flour, salt, and cardamom and slowly add it to the wet mixture, blending just until all the flour is incorporated. Don't over beat.
- Fill your cookie press with dough, and press out onto a cold cookie sheet. Sprinkle with colored sugar or small sprinkles if desired.
- Bake for 10 minutes, or just until set. The cookies will still be pale. Let them cool for 5 minutes on the sheet before tranferring onto a rack. The cookies will be soft but will crisp up as they cool.
Notes
You can add more cardamom if you like, but I found that one teaspoon gave the cookies a subtle flavor that actually developed overnight.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 cookie · Calories: 46 kcal · Carbohydrates: 5 g · Protein: 1 g · Fat: 3 g · Saturated Fat: 2 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 1 g · Trans Fat: 0.1 g · Cholesterol: 9 mg · Sodium: 27 mg · Potassium: 6 mg · Fiber: 0.1 g · Sugar: 2 g · Vitamin A: 83 IU · Vitamin C: 0.005 mg · Calcium: 3 mg · Iron: 0.2 mg
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although The View from Great Island attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
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