Cool Tools: Spritz Cookie Press

Emma Christensen
Emma Christensen
Emma is a former editor for The Kitchn and a graduate of the Cambridge School for Culinary Arts. She is the author of True Brews and Brew Better Beer. Check out her website for more cooking stories
updated May 2, 2019
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While a cookie press is not an essential baking tool by any stretch of the imagination, they certainly are a lot of fun! We love pulling ours out around the holidays to make a few batches of delicate and buttery spritz cookies, especially when there are kids around who are eager to help out with cookie baking. Do you own one?

Cookie presses work by pushing a small amount of dough through perforated plates directly onto the baking sheet, somewhat like a caulking gun. A ratchet-like press system means that the same amount of dough is used each time and the cookies are uniformly shaped.

Most presses come with several different interchangeable plates, so you to make cookies shaped like wreaths, snowflakes, trees, flowers, and more. Some of the newer presses even have pastry tips for decorating the cookies after baking.

It can take a bit of hunting to find a good cookie press, though many kitchen supply stores will carry them in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Here are a few places where you can find them online:

• Kuhn Rikon Cookie Press, $30 from Sur La Table
• Nordic Ware Spritz Cookie Press, $20 from Amazon

Do you own a cookie press? How often do you make spritz cookies?

Related: Kuhn Rikon Squeezable Decorating Kit

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