Press Cookies Recipes

COOKIE-PRESS COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, flour, salt, and vanilla. Mix thoroughly.
• Fill a cookie press with the dough, and turn out cookies 1 to 2 inches apart onto an unbuttered baking sheet. Sprinkle cookies with colored sanding sugars.
• Bake until the cookies are lightly browned, 7 to 10 minutes. To ensure even baking, rotate sheet halfway through the baking process. Transfer to a wire rack, and let cool.

COOKIE PRESS COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, flour, salt, and vanilla. Mix thoroughly.
• Fill a cookie press with the dough, and turn out cookies 1 to 2 inches apart onto an unbuttered baking sheet. Sprinkle cookies with colored sanding sugars.
• Bake until the cookies are lightly browned, 7 to 10 minutes. To ensure even baking, rotate sheet halfway through the baking process. Transfer to a wire rack, and let cool.

COOKIE PRESS BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in the egg yolks, 2 tablespoons water, flour, salt and vanilla. Chill the dough.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C).
• Fill the cookie press and shape the cookies on an ungreased baking sheet. Brush the top of each cookie with the egg whites mixed with 2 tablespoons of the water. Decorate as desired.
• Bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) until the cookies are golden brown on top, about 10 minutes.

COOKIE PRESS SHORTBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a medium mixing bowl, cream together butter, confectioners' sugar, and vanilla until smooth with electric mixer. Stir in flour and cornstarch. Pop dough into your cookie press, and away you go! Press cookies out onto ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the peaks are golden.

WILTON BUTTER PRESS COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Thoroughly cream butter and sugar.
• Add egg, milk, vanilla and almond extracts; beat well. Sift the flour and then measure by spooning the sifted flour into the measuring cup. (Using too much flour will make the dough too dense to come out the press. I have found out the hard way that sifting the flour is important!).
• Stir together flour and baking powder; gradually add to creamed mixture, mixing to make a smooth dough.
• DO NOT CHILL.
• Place dough in cookie press and press cookies on to ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 6-8 minutes.
• Remove cookies from sheet and cool on rack.
• Makes 6 dozen cookies (but they're very small).

CHRISTMAS PRESS COOKIES

Steps:

• PreHeat oven to 400.
• Cream shortening and sugar in large bowl on medium speed until well blended.
• Beat in egg, salt, vanilla, and almond extract.
• Stir in flour.
• Place dough in cookie press. Press into desired shapes 2 inches apart on cooled, ungreased baking sheet.
• Bake for 5 to 7 minutes or until set, but not brown.
• Cool on baking sheet one minute. Remove to.
• cooling rack.