Cookie Press Christmas Wreath Cream Cheese Cookies Food

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.

CREAM CHEESE PRESS COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream together shortening, butter, sugar, and cream cheese.
• Seperate egg and mix well beaten egg yolk into creamed mixture.
• Save egg white and lightly whip.
• Add vanilla to creamed mixture.
• Mix in the 2 cups of flour.
• Put into cookie press and press onto cold ungreased cookie sheet.
• Brush with egg white it decorating with colored sugar.
• Bake at 400 for 8 to 10 minutes.
• Cool on wire rack.

CREAM CHEESE SPRITZ COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Cream butter and cream cheese together in a bowl using an electric mixer; add sugar and beat well. Mix in vanilla extract and food coloring. Slowly add flour and mix well to combine.
• Fill a cookie press with dough and form cookies onto ungreased cookie sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges are set, 8 to 10 minutes, making sure to remove at the first hint of browning.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CREAM CHEESE CHRISTMAS (HOLIDAY) COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix sugar, salt, butter, cream cheese, almond and vanilla extract, and egg yolk together well.
• Stir in flour until well blended.
• Chill dough for at least 30 minutes (I've chilled mine a little less than 24 hours but I wouldn't suggest going over that.).
• After You've taken the dough out of the chilled area (sometimes I use the garage) Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• On a lightly floured surface roll out 1/3-1/2 of the dough.
• Cut the dough to holiday shapes and place on an ungreased pan. (The cookies do not expand very much while cooking, so you can place them close together.).
• Here's where you can use the egg white! Spread the egg white over the top of the cookie and add sprinkle if you would like, or leave them plain and add frosting later!
• Bake the cookies 10 minutes (or until they're a light brown).
• Let cookies cool completely before adding any frosting.