Wreath Cookie Press Cookies Recipes

WREATH COOKIES

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg yolks one at a time. gradually mix in the flour. Cover dough and chill until firm, about 2 hours.
• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or aluminum foil. Roll dough into balls a little smaller than walnuts. Dip the balls in egg white, then roll them in the chopped walnuts. Place cookies 1 inch apart onto the prepared cookie sheets. Press thumb into middle of each ball to create a divot.
• Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges are golden. Remove from oven and repress divots, fill the divots with 1/2 teaspoon of raspberry jam. Remove cookies to cool on wire racks.

COOKIE-PRESS COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, flour, salt, and vanilla. Mix thoroughly.
• Fill a cookie press with the dough, and turn out cookies 1 to 2 inches apart onto an unbuttered baking sheet. Sprinkle cookies with colored sanding sugars.
• Bake until the cookies are lightly browned, 7 to 10 minutes. To ensure even baking, rotate sheet halfway through the baking process. Transfer to a wire rack, and let cool.

CHRISTMAS CORNFLAKE WREATH COOKIES

Steps:

• Microwave marshmallows and butter on High for 2 minutes. Stir, then microwave on High for 2 minutes more. Stir. (This can be done in a double boiler if one doesn't have a microwave.)
• Add and mix quickly the coloring, extracts, then cornflakes. Drop by spoonfuls in clumps on greased wax paper and decorate with 3 red hots each.
• Once cool, transfer to lightly greased serving/storage tray with lightly greased fingers.

COOKIE-PRESS CHRISTMAS WREATH CREAM CHEESE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream the cheese in the mixer, then add sugar, then butter. Add vanilla and food coloring. Gradually blend in flour. Fill cookie press. Use a 1/2" star mold. Squeeze and rotate at the same time. Form wreaths on ungreased cookie sheet. Gently push ends together. Bake for about 8 minutes or until first tinge of brown on an edge. Remove or loosen at once. Use red buttercream icing to add a bow and make three berry dots in three locations on the wreaths.

HOLLY WREATHS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. Cream butter and cream cheese. Add sugar; beat until light and fluffy. Stir in vanilla. Gradually beat in flour. , Using a cookie press fitted with a star piping tip, shape dough into 2-1/2-in. wreaths 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake until set (do not brown), 8-10 minutes. Cool on wire racks., Decorate with green cherry pieces for leaves and Red Hots for berries. Use red decorating icing to form bows and adhere candy to wreaths.

CREAM CHEESE WREATH COOKIES

Steps:

• In a mixer beat the butter until smooth.
• Add the cream cheese, sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla until smooth blending each ingredient before adding the next.
• If you are going to add color to the dough this is the stage to do it. Mix in your coloring to the desired tone.
• Add Flour and salt to the mixture.
• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or grease the sheets (whichever you prefer).
• Place dough into a cookie press and if using a star pattern, press out approximately 3-4 inches of dough.
• Form the strings into circles and decorate with sprinkles and candied cherries.
• Place decorated cookies in a 400 degree oven for 7-8 minutes.

SPRITZ CHRISTMAS WREATH COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F. In a bowl with an electric mixer cream the butter with the granulated sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy, add the salt, the vanilla, and the egg yolks, and beat the mixture until it is smooth. Add the flour and beat the dough until it is just combined. Pack the dough into a cookie press fitted with the wreath disk and press cookies about 1 inch apart onto cool, ungreased baking sheets. Brush the cookies lightly with the egg wash, sprinkle them with the decorating sugar, and arrange the cherry slices decoratively on them. Bake the cookies in batches in the middle of the oven for 12 to 15 minutes, or until the edges are pale golden. Transfer the cookies to racks and let them cool. (Do not let the cookies cool on the sheets.) The cookies may be made 2 months in advance and kept frozen in airtight containers.

SNOWFLAKE COOKIES (COOKIE PRESS RECIPE)

Steps:

• Cream together butter and cream cheese until smooth.
• Beat in egg yolk and extracts, then gradually beat in sugar until light and fluffy.
• Mix together the flour and salt, then slowly add flour mixture just until well blended.
• Put dough in cookie press and make favorite shapes (wreath, tree, etc.).
• Sprinkle with colored sugar and bake in 350-degree oven for 10-12 minutes or until golden.
• Remove from oven and let set on baking sheet 3 minutes to set.
• Cool on wire rack.

HOLIDAY WREATHS WITH CHERRIES SPRITZ COOKIES FOR COOKIE PRESS

Steps:

• With an electric mixer (can be done by hand, but it's a lot of work!), cream butter & cream cheese until light.
• Add the granulated sugar to butter blend and beat until light and fluffy.
• Beat in egg yolk, vanilla, and almond extract.
• In a separate large mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients (flour, baking powder and salt).
• Gradually blend in flour with creamed butter mixture.
• Chill dough for minimum 4 hours.
• After dough is chilled, preheat oven to 350°F.
• Add chilled dough to cookie press, use wreath shaping disc.
• Press cookies onto lightly greased cookie sheet or baking stone (baking stone recommended).
• Sprinkle green decorator sugar (granulated) over cookies.
• Add 1 cherry in middle of each wreath.
• Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until slightly browned. Do not over bake
• Let cool on wire cooling rack before serving.

WREATH COOKIE PRESS COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar. Slowly add flour and baking powder alternating with egg and flavorings. Mix in green food coloring. Split batch into 4 parts, wrap each in plastic and refridgerate. When ready to form cookies: Heat oven to 400 degrees. Remove one part of dough and warm to room tempature. Fill a cookie press. Use the star plate to form dough into a long thin piece of dough. Allow dough to sprial slightly as it leaves the cookie press. Make 2 inch diameter, circle shaped cookies and press ends together with finger. Form cookies closely together as they will not spread. Cover the entire cookie sheet. Place two red hots on the pressed ends of each cookie...slightly press into dough. Using small measuring spoon, fill sprial edges of cookies with green decorator sugar. Use lots of sugar as much as possible - sugar will stick to formed cookie dough as it warms. After entire sheet of cookies is covered with sugar, lightly tap to remove excess sugar from cookie sheet (save and reuse). Bake cookies until just set. Usually 6 minutes. Watch them carefully. Cookies are done when set, but redhots are not melted. Bake one sheet at a time.