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[[File:Holiday Cookie Tray.jpg|thumb|Traditional holiday cookie plate with green tree-shaped spritz]]
[[File:Holiday Cookie Tray.jpg|thumb|Traditional holiday cookie plate with green tree-shaped spritz]]
'''''Spritzgebäck''''' is a type of German and Alsatian-Mosellan [[biscuit]] or [[cookie]] made of a rich [[shortcrust pastry]]. When made correctly, the cookies are crisp, fragile, somewhat dry, and buttery. The German root verb ''{{lang|de|spritzen}}'' is cognate with the English ''to spurt''. As the name implies, these cookies are made by extruding, or "spurting", the dough with a press fitted with patterned holes (a [[cookie press]]) or with a cake decorator, or pastry bag, to which a variety of nozzles may be fitted. In the United States, the name ''{{lang|de|Spritzgebäck}}'' is often shortened to ''spritz'' becoming known as the ''spritz cookie''.<ref name="Wilson2011">{{cite book|author=Dede Wilson|title=Baker's Field Guide to Christmas Cookies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fUi6eYOKHEUC&pg=PA146|accessdate=19 April 2012|date=11 October 2011|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-1-55832-628-6|page=146}}</ref>
'''''Spritzgebäck''''' ({{IPA|de|ˈʃpʁɪt͡sɡəˌbɛk|lang|De-Spritzgebäck.ogg}}), also called a '''spritz cookie''' in the United States,<ref name="Wilson2011">{{cite book|author=Dede Wilson|title=Baker's Field Guide to Christmas Cookies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fUi6eYOKHEUC&pg=PA146|accessdate=19 April 2012|date=11 October 2011|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-1-55832-628-6|page=146}}</ref> is a type [[biscuit]] or [[cookie]] of German and Alsatian-Mosellan origin made of a rich [[shortcrust pastry]]. When made correctly, the cookies are crisp, fragile, somewhat dry, and buttery.

The German root verb ''{{lang|de|spritzen}}'' ({{IPA|de|ˌʃpʁɪt͡sn̩|lang|De-Spritzen.ogg}}) is cognate with the English ''to spurt''. As the name implies, these cookies are made by squeezing, or "spritzing", the dough through a
[[cookie press]] fitted with patterned holes (or extruded through a cake decorator or pastry bag to which a variety of nozzles may be fitted).


==See also==
==See also==

Latest revision as of 22:15, 8 October 2024

Spritzgebäck
TypeBiscuit / Cookie
Place of originGermany, France (Alsace and Moselle)
Main ingredientsflour, butter, sugar, eggs
Traditional holiday cookie plate with green tree-shaped spritz

Spritzgebäck (German: [ˈʃpʁɪt͡sɡəˌbɛk] ), also called a spritz cookie in the United States,[1] is a type biscuit or cookie of German and Alsatian-Mosellan origin made of a rich shortcrust pastry. When made correctly, the cookies are crisp, fragile, somewhat dry, and buttery.

The German root verb spritzen (German: [ˌʃpʁɪt͡sn̩] ) is cognate with the English to spurt. As the name implies, these cookies are made by squeezing, or "spritzing", the dough through a cookie press fitted with patterned holes (or extruded through a cake decorator or pastry bag to which a variety of nozzles may be fitted).

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  1. ^ Dede Wilson (11 October 2011). Baker's Field Guide to Christmas Cookies. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-55832-628-6. Retrieved 19 April 2012.