Spritz Cookie (Using a cookie gun)

   

 What is this for - Cookie gun? Was wondering and ended up ordering it out of curiosity!

 This cookie gun is a small gadget to make the Spritz cookie (German, Scandinavian cookie) which has a variety of fanciful shapes when the dough is forced through a gun. Along with many German pastries, this is eaten during Christmas, and called Spritzgeback in German, meaning 'squirt' in English.

 The dough itself is traditionally very simple to make, but I made it with a different recipe. This recipe uses only Egg white so as to make the cookie lighter and more crispy. Additionally, decorated with tempered chocolate and jam to make it as cookie sandwich I love. :)








 You will need :

(for about 70 chocolate cookies)

Flour 237g
Cocoa powder 32g
Ground almond 32g
Butter, softened 250g
Icing sugar 98g
Egg white 45g
Salt 1ts
Vanilla extract 1ts

A cookie press

(1-3) Vanilla batter

 (1) Cream butter and icing sugar

 (2) Whisk meringue, then Mix into butter

 (3) Fold all dry ingredients

(4) Shoot once / each cookie

(5)

 (4) Fill the gun with this batter, and SHOOT it on the buttered tray! (Stand the gun straight, and shoot once, then take off gently.)

 (5) Press down any peaks with a watered finger

 (6) Bake at 170'C for 20 mins

(7) Done!

Choco / Lemon / Green Tea

 (7) You can eat itself, but like me, you can decorate with chocolate, and put it together with jam.

* I made 3 different shapes and flavours
   : Chocolate CooKies + White Choco + Raspberry Jam
   : Lemon Poppyseed CooKies + Milk Choco + Praline
   : Green tea Cookies + Green tea Choco + Orange Jam

 Enjoy playing with your cookie gun, there are so much fun to see how it comes out from the gun!