Taste of home spritz cookies

This Christmas Cookies recipe (Spritz Cookies) will give you classic and delicious flavors easily at home! With festive shapes and decor these are bound to win everyone's heart!

A touch of almond extract gives these spritz wonderful flavor. For Christmas, you could tint half of the dough with red food coloring and the other half with green. — Irmgard Sinn, Sherwood Park, Alberta

Spritz cookies bring back memories of Christmas cookie swaps and grandma's house. Let's dust off the cookie press and browse these top-rated spritz cookie recipes.

Brown sugar gives these spritz cookies a lovely light caramel tint. This variation has a rich buttery shortbread taste and texture with a hint of orange flavor. They are a delightful addition to my holiday cookie tray. -Sean Fleming, St. Charles, Illinois

This recipe combines two types of Christmas cookies - spritz and thumbprint! Spiced Jam Spritz Cookies are stuffed with holiday spiced jam!

One of the most iconic of holiday sweets, spritz are bite-size buttery cookies with vanilla and almond. These classic cookies are made with a cookie press and the dough holds its shape beautifully when baked and will be the perfect addition to your cookie swap.

This recipe makes a lot of terrific cookies! It's great for Christmas when all the kids and grandkids visit. They can help decorate the cookies-not to mention help eat them! —Paula Pelis, Rocky Point, New York

Cream Cheese Spritz Cookies - these spritz cookies or holly wreaths are the perfect holiday cookie. Just like you had as a kid, and you can make any shape you like!

Today I am joining my sweet blog friend, Erin, at The Speckled Palate, for her annual The Sweetest Season Cookie Exchange. Erin invited other bloggers to her annual celebration of sugar and butter, a gathering of Internet friends around a virtual cookie table. Of course, I was in! This year, we’re also raising money in support of Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is a recognized 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to funding research for new, innovative, and less-toxic…

These are the BEST Spritz Cookies! This is our family's number one favorite Christmas cookie. It's a traditional Swedish recipe from great-grandma Prudy. Spritz cookies are sweet and buttery and use only 6 ingredients, including almond extract, which gives them their unique flavor. They are made into adorable little shapes using a cookie press. It is basically impossible to eat just one! (I know I can eat about 5,000.)