Showing posts with label spritz cookies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spritz cookies. Show all posts

Saturday, 11 August 2012

Spritz Cookies – It’s All In The Bagging!

Spritz cookies are my favorite cookie at the holidays.  I don’t make them any other time of the year, just as I don’t watch “A Christmas Carol” or “The Grinch” in July.  These cookies bring back strong childhood memories for me, mostly of my Mom’s frustration with her antique cookie press.

If I had only known how to use a pastry bag when I was 5, I would have helped ease some of that maternal angst.  The correct use of a pastry bag is an easier way to make spritz cookies, and it allows you to make many different shapes with one bag.

Just like the other cookies we’ve been talking about this week, the key to making cookies from scratch is in