Spritzgebäck [SEP] country of origin
which a variety of nozzles may be fitted. In the United States, the name "Spritzgebäck" is often shortened to "spritz" becoming known as the "spritz cookie".
"Spritzgebäck" is a common pastry in Germany and served often during Christmas season, when parents commonly spend afternoons baking with their children for one or two weeks. Traditionally, parents bake "Spritzgebäck" using their own special recipes, which they pass down to their children.
See also.
- List of German desserts
Spritzgebäck
Spritzgebäck is a type of German and Alsatian-Mosellan Christmas biscuit or Christmas cookie made of flour, butter, sugar and eggs. When made correctly, the cookies are crisp, fragile, somewhat dry, and buttery. The German verb "spritzen" means "to squirt" in English. As the name implies, these cookies are made by extruding, or "squirting," the dough with a press fitted with patterned holes (a cookie press) or with a cake decorator, or pastry bag, to