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(), also called a spritz cookie in the United States, is a type
(), also called a spritz cookie in the United States, is a type biscuit
A biscuit is a flour-based baked food item. Biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger, or cinnamon. They can also be savoury, similar to crackers.
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or cookie
A cookie is a sweet biscuit with high sugar and fat content. Cookie dough is softer than that used for other types of biscuit, and they are cooked longer at lower temperatures. The dough typically contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of ...
of German and Alsatian-Mosellan origin made of a rich shortcrust pastry
Shortcrust is a type of pastry often used for the base of a tart, quiche, pie, or (in the British English sense) flan. Shortcrust pastry can be used to make both sweet and savory pies such as apple pie, quiche, lemon meringue or chicken pie. ...
. When made correctly, the cookies are crisp, fragile, somewhat dry, and buttery.
The German root verb () is cognate with the English '' spurt''. As the name implies, these cookies are made by squeezing, or "spritzing", the dough through a
cookie press
A cookie press is a device for making pressed cookies such as spritz cookies. It consists of a cylinder with a plunger on one end, which is used to extrude
Extrusion is a process used to create objects of a fixed cross section (geometry), cr ...
fitted with patterned holes (or extruded through a cake decorator or pastry forcing bag to which a variety of nozzles may be fitted).
See also
*List of German desserts
This is a list of German desserts. German cuisine has evolved as a national cuisine through centuries of social and political change with variations from region to region. The southern regions of Germany, including Bavaria and neighbouring Swabia, ...
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References
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