Spritjes - the best sugar cookies

These are my standby sugar cookies that I make for Christmas, Valentines and just about any other time we want some sugar cookies. They are great frozen until you need some. These cookies have saved me numerous times when I have flaked out and forgotten an obligation at the girls’ school to bring treats. It is so easy to pull out this cookie dough out of the freezer, cut them into slices, bake and your instant treats are ready.I got this recipe from an old friend from the Netherlands. She used to make this for us, her co-workers, every Christmas and she always made them in the cutest little shapes. See, this dough is perfect for those cookie presses in case you have one in your gadget drawer waiting to be used. Try to save my method of freezing and slicing for emergencies only.

INGREDIENTS:
4 cups Flour
3 cups Sugar
4 ½ sticks of Butter, softened to room temperature
1 Tablespoon pure Vanilla extract
6 Egg Yolks
1 teaspoon Baking Powder

Put everything in one bowl and mix well by hand. I don’t use a mixer for this. Just make sure to take the butter out the night before so it is really easy to mix. If your butter is on the cold side, then I would use a mixer to cream it and the sugar first until it is creamy.

You can press the dough from a cookie press or roll into cylinders wrapped in wax paper or plastic wrap and freeze until firm before baking.

Bake at 375 degrees F for approximately 10-12 minutes or until the edges are browned.

NOTES:
This is a big batch so I’m sure you will have enough uncooked dough to freeze. If you’d rather not make such a huge batch, the recipe halved works just as well too.

These were simply decorated by rolling/dipping the dough in colored sugar before baking. Like I’ve said before I’m not much of a decorator, but you can do quite much more as far as decorating goes. These cookies are very open to ornamentation

Whenever I make these sugar cookies, I usually end up meringues or cat’s tongues (cookies) to use up the egg whites. Recipes for those will follow soon.

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One Response to “Spritjes - the best sugar cookies”

stel Says:
April 16th, 2008 at 11:33 am
that’s a great standby, all-around-er type of treat! and nothing compares to homemade, fresh or frozen. lucky girls…