Lemon Cheese Spritz Cookies for Christmas

"you've tasted these -- they melt in your mouth -- but usually people don't add the lemon zest, which makes All The Difference in how special these taste"
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
8
Yields:
36 cookies
Serves:
12
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ingredients

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directions

  • Cream butter, cream cheese and sugar in a mixer.
  • Add egg yolk and flavorings.
  • Beat until light.
  • Shake flour through a fine sieve with the salt.
  • Add this to butter mixture until blended well.
  • Force through a cookie press or spritz gun onto cookie sheets.
  • Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. UNDERbake these; do not let them brown.
  • Makes 6 dozen.

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Reviews

  1. Not bad. Lemon flavor is quite mild. If I make them again, I'd double the lemon.
     
  2. My mom and I make Christmas cookies for several days every year, and we're known for our efforts. We added this recipe this year, and they were a HUGE hit. They have a fantastic flavor and are light and yummy! Here's a tip, though - spritz the cookies when they're still chilled, or chill the dough, to get better results. Otherwise, the spritzed cookies won't stick to your cookie sheet and they come out more like globs.
     
  3. These are excellent! Just the right amount of lemon and cream cheese flavor. They are perfect little spritz cookies and worked great in my SuperShooter. I only needed 10 minutes bake time...any longer and they started to brown on the edges. Thanks for posting!
     
  4. These are delicious! We made them this afternoon and shared them with neighbors. The lemon adds a nice element to the flavor. Also, to those who thought the lemon flavor was too mild, I'm wondering if you used lemon juice instead of lemon flavor? I thought these pressed easily and I had an old school twist cookie press that was my grandma's. We liked these so much better than the spritz recipes that use shortening! The cream cheese element is nice, too!
     
  5. These were ok. I don't taste any lemon flavor at all. The texture is a little weird also. Almost tastes like it isn't cooked enough.
     
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  1. These are delicious! We made them this afternoon and shared them with neighbors. The lemon adds a nice element to the flavor. Also, to those who thought the lemon flavor was too mild, I'm wondering if you used lemon juice instead of lemon flavor? I thought these pressed easily and I had an old school twist cookie press that was my grandma's. We liked these so much better than the spritz recipes that use shortening! The cream cheese element is nice, too!
     

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56, an Army brat who has lived in 20 different locations [born in germany, went to kindergarten in japan] including new york city, palo alto CA, maine, georgia, chicago, after growing up in small-town kansas... have some fabulous recipes from well-traveled army people... recently started adding just a splash of bourbon or brandy to real maple syrup - and it really gives french toast or pancakes a special, more sophisticated flavor... a friend jokes that bourbon is my new "secret ingredient" that i'll be adding to everything - it's not true but i'm telling you - you should try it! it's really very good [for adults, anyway] sugarpea's apple pancake recipe is a deadringer for Walker Brothers Pancake House in north shore Chicago - i've searchd for this for 34 years - and it's easy as well as To Die For!!! the Dutch Baby pancake is a huge seller there too - with the same gooey comfort-food but elegant batter... also if you search for lettuce wrap - the 2 recipes for PF Chang's come up... this is also SO GOOD, truly a memorable entree... for cookbooks: With a Jug of Wine, More Recipes With a Jug of Wine were written by the San Francisco Chronicle food writer decades ago - and most everything in them is superb - and i learned a lot as a new cook, young wife, from reading through them in the late 1970s... i got a [very French] sense of food as a way of life
 
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