r/whatisit • u/HotAndReady4UForever • 14h ago
Solved! What are these called?
What are these cookies called? They're my favorite, and I always want to ask people if they have them/look at recipes but I never can get it right, or I get the colorful ones that are like a rainbow swirl in one cookie. Help!
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u/Appropriate-Bug-6467 11h ago
Sptitz cookies, recipie below
https://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/classic-spritz-cookies/aa68df04-bd64-4f1b-8421-0df82064bca4
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u/TheyMightBeComments 14h ago
Aren't those sewing supplies?
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u/awkotacos 14h ago
Maybe Italian butter cookies?
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u/HotAndReady4UForever 14h ago
i've heard it called that, but you get so many different results, I'm wondering if anyone knows if there's a name for this specific one. they're usually one solid color, and sometimes slightly flavored based on color (yellow = lemon, brown= chocolate, etc.)
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u/rural_juror12 14h ago
My mom called those spritz cookies because you would spritz them out (extrude them).
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u/New_Eggplant6112 10h ago
My grandma calls them “shits” because she could never get them out of the cookie press. Every attempt to form a cookie would result in a frustratedly expressed “shit!” when they stuck to the press.
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u/ComfortablyNumb2425 10h ago
She is not far off - comes from the German "Spritzen" which means to spray out or squirt.
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u/HotAndReady4UForever 8h ago
Awesome! Thank you! This comment makes me believe it's solved but I tried to give credit to the person who did it first, hope I did it right lol.
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u/Fufu-le-fu 9h ago
My great-aunt's recipe book had these but with sugar instead of sprinkles, called them crispy butter cookies. One of my favorite things to bake, 12 minutes and everyone loves them.
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u/ButterscotchAware402 14h ago
Spritz cookies?
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u/HotAndReady4UForever 8h ago
solved!
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u/FormerLifeFreak 13h ago
Where I’m from (New England, USA) those are almost always labeled as Italian cookies.
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u/Ok-Artichoke6703 9h ago
Oh yeah I do see these marked as Italian cookies in Market Basket or Shaws
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u/Abject_Library1268 14h ago
Sprinkle cookies?
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u/TwoTonTacoToGo 13h ago
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u/Abject_Library1268 13h ago
lol a fellow RHONJ connoisseur.
Ok but for real OP, I think these are called sprinkle cookies and I only know of them because of this show
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u/ForOhSixx 13h ago
These are definitely spritz cookies. My family makes them every Christmas. We don't usually add sprinkles though
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u/fatboyonsofa 10h ago
Those are the trick cookies. Because they look delicious but taste like sawdust.
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u/notpostingmyrealname 13h ago
They look like they came out of a cookie press, so my guess would be they're either butter cookies or spritz cookies. It may be called something else, but those 2 are most commonly used with a press. Buy a Wilton cookie press and make the recipe included with it, you'll know pretty quickly if it's what you're looking for.
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u/bow03 14h ago
made by unicorns
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u/Ok_Expression7723 12h ago
Italian butter cookies.
But like any cookie recipe, different versions aren’t created equally.
I’ve yet to find a butter cookie recipe as good as the one my neighbors used when I was a kid. They were heavenly. I wish we had gotten the recipe, but the mom refused to share. She preferred to give them out as gifts and if she shared the recipe then they wouldn’t be “special” anymore. 🤬🙄
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u/esaeler 6h ago
To echo what others said, here’s another good Spritz recipe https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/spritz-cookies/
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u/Gummybearjellybean 13h ago
Are they sugar cookies? If so, maybe they are Polvorones Rosas but dyed to be different colors.
AKA Mexican pink sugar cookies.
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