What’s a cookie press?

A basic manual cookie press is a cylinder-shaped container with a small opening on one end and a plunger mechanism on the other end. These tools are available in both manual and electric or battery powered versions. Discs of different shapes added to any type of press create different shapes of pressed biscuits.

Spritz biscuits are a traditional Christmas Scandinavian butter biscuit and are also called pressed biscuits. They are made with a cookie press and can come in many different shapes such as trees, snowflakes, swirls, or flower-like roundels with curled edges. Scottish shortbread biscuits are also popular Christmas biscuits, and the shortbread dough can be rolled and cut with cookie cutters or put into a press. Danish butter cookies, with their swirled, fluted, or pretzel-like shapes that are often sold boxed around the holidays, are good examples of cookies made with a cookie press.

A cookie press is sometimes called a cookie gun, as some types of cookie presses have a trigger-like function. Some have interchangeable icing tips included with cookie-making discs so you can use this type of press to frost cookies and cakes as well. Pressed cookies are also known as bagged or piped cookies due to their association with icing decorators. You can use an ice bag with several attachments to make pressed cookies, but a cookie press usually works more efficiently.

Electric or battery-operated cookie presses can be useful for those who bake cookies frequently. These types are easier to use than a manual version, making them useful for those with conditions like arthritis. Most electric and battery-operated presses come with recipes since you cannot achieve the same results with a manual cookie press as you would with an electric or battery-operated press.

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