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Spritzgebäck

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

Spritzgebäck (German: [ˈʃpʁɪt͡sɡəˌbɛk] ) 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 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 Spritzgebäck is often shortened to spritz becoming known as the spritz cookie.[1]

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References

  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.