The festival of mother's day brings with it lots of joy and delight. A day to commemorate all hardships mom took in making you just perfect, loving you, caring you and fulfilling your all wishes without looking at her own desires even at once (focus not on hardships but on love and perfection). Such a great figure in our life, our mom, deserves great treat on her very special day that is the Mother's Day. Make her feel like queen of the house: abiding her rules, making efforts to delight her and above all, showing respect and love for her. To add to the flavour of joy, make cookies at home. Enriched with butter, these cookies will make the atmosphere even more relishing, and not to mention - deliciously amazing. Browse through the next sub-section of the article to know about the easy recipes for making spritz cookies at home. Try them on this mother's day and convey a silent message to your mum that she is always loved, cared and respected in more than one way.
Spritz Cookie Recipes For Mother's Day
Recipe 1
Ingredients
Mother's day spritz cookies are easy baked cookies and loved by one and all. Here is an article with the recipe of easy baked cookies.
Spritz Cookies
- 2 cup Butter kept at room temperature
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 ea Egg
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 3 1/2 cup all purpose Flour
- 1/2 cup Cornstarch
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cream butter and sugar with the help of electric mixer, until it becomes light and feathery. Mix it in egg and vanilla.
- Now, add flour and cornstarch to it and mix until fully blended.
- Put the cookies over ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake for about 10 minutes or till it becomes light brown and firm.
- Put to racks and cool them.
Recipe 2
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1 cup softened Margarine, use butter if not available
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 1 large Egg Yolk
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 cup All-purpose Flour
- Half cut Red candied Cherries, for garnishing
Directions
- At first, heat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Meanwhile, beat margarine or butter in large bowl, mixing it with sugar in a mixer at medium speed. When it becomes creamy, add egg yolk and vanilla.
- At low speed, pound in flour until blended. Scrap the bowl with rubber spatula intermittently.
- In a decorating bag with large star tip, spoon half of the dough. Pipe dough to form rosettes of 1½ inches diameter.
- You can put a cherry at the centre of these preparatory cookies before baking.
- Bake cookies for around 12-14 minutes. When they show light brown coloured edges, cookies are ready. Leave them on the cookie sheet for about 2 minutes so that they get settled.
- Take help of pancake turner to remove them from sheet and place on wire rack. Let them cool completely.
- Your cookies are ready.
- Redo the process with remaining dough.
- They can be stored for a week, but in an air-tight container.
Recipe 3
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1 cup Softened Butter
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 1 large Egg
- 1 teaspoon Almond Extract
- 2 cup All-purpose Flour
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Put butter and sugar in a mixer and beat them into mixture at low speed until blended.
- Now, gradually raise the speed to high level. Continue beating to get light and creamy batter.
- At low speed, in a different bowl, mix egg and almond extract. Beat in flour until blended.
- Using a spoon, press the dough into cookie press or large decorating bag fitted with large star tip (3/4-inch-diameter opening).
- On a baking sheet, give the dough S shapes of approx 2 1/2 inches long and 2 inches separate.
- Bake the cookies for 15-17 minutes; you will obtain light brown coloured edges.
- Leave cookies as they are on the cookie sheet allowing them to cool.
- Let them cool completely by shifting them to wire rack.
- Repeat the same process for remaining dough.
- Cookies are ready to serve.
- You can store them for around a week in an air-tight container.