Pepparkakor Spritz

 

And one more cookie recipe!  We tried this recipe in a previous year (2015) and I mentioned it in passing, but never blogged about it.  This cookie recipe is one of the many excellent ones in this classic baking book from the 1950s -- Best Loved Foods of Christmas -- the very one that came out every Christmas of my childhood as my mother began to plan her kitchen gifts.

I love my regular Pepparkakor recipe (for cutout cookies) 

and am probably not ever going to replace it with these pressed ones.  My regular recipe calls for the rind and juice of an orange, and I love that flavor component.  But the taste is very similar and very festive. My hubby enjoyed trying different shapes with the cookie press for this one, and he sprinkled them with red sugar.  

This is a delicious and somewhat different spritz variation!