Pressed cookies are made using a cookie gun or press, and can be shaped into festive designs. The dough is simple and can be flavored with extracts or liqueurs. Spritzgebäck is a popular German pressed cookie.
Pressed cookies are typically cookies that are made through the use of a cookie gun or similar device that allows cookie dough to be pressed through an extrusion nozzle onto a cookie sheet. These types of cookies often come in shapes or patterns and can be the size of drop cookies or prepared into longer strips or tubes of dough before baking. While they’re easy to make year-round, pressed cookies are often prepared for holidays or other celebratory occasions, often due to the simplicity of turning cookies into festive shapes and designs.
The soft dough is generally used in the preparation of pressed biscuits, often simply made with butter, flour, eggs and sugar. The simple nature of this dough means that it usually doesn’t require refrigeration or freezing before use, making them easy and fairly quick to prepare. For more flavorful cookies, other ingredients can be added, such as vanilla extract, almond extract, and flavored liqueurs such as brandy, rum, lemon liqueur such as limoncello, and coffee liqueur. If you use such flavored additives, however, more flour may be needed to maintain the correct dough consistency for extruding.
Extruding, or pressing, of cookies is typically done by the use of a cookie gun or cookie press, which allows you to place the dough into a large tube and then press it through a prong onto a baking sheet . For smaller cookies or pressed cookies with more detail, a decorated bag used to decorate cake can be used instead, with the dough squeezed through the tip. This can allow for the creation of very fine biscuits that can be quite delicate and made into unexpected shapes or designs. While pressed cookies are usually delicious on their own, they can also be dipped in chocolate, drizzled with powdered sugar, or served with ice cream to add even more flavor and make a holiday dessert look cooler or more impressive.
One particularly popular type of pressed cookie is a festive German cookie called Spritzgebäck, which literally means “sprinkled dough.” The name refers to the way these pressed cookies are sprinkled or sprinkled from a cookie bag or press and onto a baking sheet, and other types of pressed cookies are sometimes called “spritz cookies.” These types of biscuits are usually made in long rows or bars that can twist or spiral towards themselves, usually with a shaped extruder that provides additional texture to the long biscuits.
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