Spicy's Sweet Treats

Classic Spritz Cookies With Royal Icing

By: Wilton Cookie Max Cookie Press

These cookies are as cute as can be! I made these for my friends as a Christmas gift and they all loved it. I served them in these little metal cans with snap on lids that had all different Christmas pictures on it. I had actually gotten them for under a dollar at the Christmas tree shop and they worked great!

 Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 Cups Butter
• 1 Cup Granulated Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 2 Tablespoons Milk
• 1 Teaspoon Vanilla
• 1/2 Teaspoon Almond Extract
• 3 1/2 Cups All-Purpose Flour
• 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder

Royal Icing:

• 3 Cups Confectioners' Sugar
• 1/4 Teaspoon Cream Of Tartar
• 2 Egg Whites, Beaten

I got the royal icing recipe from http://allrecipes.com/. It is a great website that my whole family uses all the time. We get most of our recipes from there and we change them to make them our own.  

http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?sku=2104-4003 
*Here is the cookie press that I used to make these cookies. It works great and its easy to use.

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375F. 
2. Thoroughly cream butter and sugar. Add egg, milk, vanilla and almond extract; beat well. Stir together flour and baking powder; gradually add to creamed mixture, mixing to make a smooth dough. Do not chill.
3. Place dough into Cookie Max and press cookies onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned around edges. Remove cookies from sheet; cool on rack. Makes 7-8 dozen cookies.

Royal Icing Directions:

1. In a bowl, sift together confectioners' sugar and cream of tartar. Using electric mixer, beat in 2 beaten egg whites for about 5 minutes or until mixture is thick enough to hold its shape. 
2. I separated the frosting into 8 plastic cups with spoons. Once each cup had an equal amount of frosting, you can then choose your 8 colors. As you can see I used 8 colors, green, blue, pink, brown, purple, red, yellow and orange. http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3E30C97E-475A-BAC0-5A609FE5C5506685&fid=77280EB2-475A-BAC0-5E9420B5D0EEE74A
3. I cut a small little corner off in each of the bags so not a lot of frosting comes out too quickly. Then sit down with a nice cup of coffee, tea or an energy drink because you will be sitting there for a while. For all of mine, I detailed it a lot so it took me longer. Just make sure that you have the patience to frost, if not you can ask your friends or kids to help you decorate. 

*If you have any frosting left over, like I did, I just wrapped them up and placed them into a bowl and stuck them into the fridge. Just be aware that the frosting does harden after a while, I found that out when I made another batch and there were little chunks or hardened frosting coming out of the bag. Just keep frosting and designing, they will still come out great.