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this is my Aunt Helen's recipe...it is supposed to be easier than most spritz cookies when pressing out...


Aunt Helen’s Spritz Cookies

375 pre-heat oven / 8-10 minutes

• 2 Cups (4 sticks) butter
• 1 1/3 Cups sugar
• 6 egg yolks
• 1 ½ tsp almond extract
• 4-4 ½ Cups sifted flour

1. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Beat in egg yolks and almond extract.
3. Gradually blend in 2 cups of flour.
4. Dough should hold together and not be too soft.
5. only add additional flour a little at a time if necessary.
6. Fill cookie press.
7. Form cookies on un-greased cookie sheet.
8. Bake. Remove at once to cooking rack.

Makes 10-12 dozen cookies