Orange Spritz Cookies
Cream-cheese spritz cookies scented with orange zest and topped with colored sugar.
🍳 Cook: 9 min🍽️ Makes 48
Ingredients
| 1/2 cup | 120 ml | butter, softened |
| 3 oz | 85 g | cream cheese, softened |
| 1/2 cup | 120 ml | packed brown sugar |
| 2 tsp | 10 ml | orange zest |
| 1/2 tsp | 2.5 ml | orange extract or vanilla extract |
| 1 1/2 cups | 360 ml | all-purpose flour |
| 1/4 tsp | 1.3 ml | salt |
| — | colored crystal sugar |
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, cream butter, cream cheese and brown sugar.
- Beat in orange peel and extract.
- Combine flour and salt.
- Gradually add to creamed mixture.
- Using a cookie press fitted with the disk of your choice, press cookies 1 inch apart onto ungreased baking sheets.
- Sprinkle them with colored sugar.
- Bake at 375º for 6-9 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Cool for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks.