Description
Buttery vanilla cookies pressed into crisp festive trees, wreaths, and stars.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened (226 g)
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar (133 g)
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 2 tsp vanilla extract (10 ml)
- 1/4 tsp almond extract, optional (1.25 ml)
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (270 g)
- 1/2 tsp fine salt (3 g)
- Red and green gel food coloring, optional
- 2 tbsp small nonpareils or sanding sugar (24 g)
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 350°F (177°C). Set out clean, cool, ungreased light-metal sheet pans.
- Beat butter and sugar until smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes. Mix in the egg, vanilla, and almond extract.
- Add flour and salt and mix just until a soft cohesive dough forms.
- Divide the dough, leaving one part natural and tinting the other parts red and green with gel color.
- Pack dough firmly into a cookie press. Press trees, wreaths, and stars directly onto the bare cool pans.
- Add a few small sprinkles, then bake 7-9 minutes until the tops stay pale and the bottoms are faintly golden.
- Cool 3 minutes on the pan, then move carefully to a rack.
Notes
Press onto cool ungreased bare metal pans; do not line them with parchment or silicone.