Spritz Cookie

 Spritz cookie

3½ cup all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1½ cups butter

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

½ teaspoon almond extract

Stir together flour and baking powder. Beat butter for 30 seconds; add sugar and beat till fluffy. Add egg, vanilla, and almond extract, beat well. Gradually add dry ingredients to the beaten mixture, beating till well combined. Do not chill. Force dough through a cookie press onto an ungreased cookie sheet. If desired, sprinkle with colored sugars or with ground almonds dyed red or green with food coloring. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 7 or 8 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Makes about 60

NOTE

Variation: make small balls of cookies onto the cookie sheet. Dip a cookie stamp into a bowl of sugar and light press into formed cookie dough.