Lime Spritz Cookies

1. 01 introduction: Welcome to this class. In this class, I will teach you how to make these lime sp crust cookies. First, I will teach you how to make the cookie dough. Next, I will teach you how to use the cookie press to form the cookies. Then I will teach you how to sprinkle on the sugars or sprinkles. Finally, I will teach you how to bake and cool the cookies. I am a self taught baker. Many years ago, I decided I wanted to open up my own home bakery. Part of what I did at this bakery was to go to farmers markets, festivals, and make desserts for special occasions. These cookies worked for all three of those things. I had this business for several years until my husband had a job offer in another city. In another state, we felt like it was a good move, so I closed my bakery and we moved. Now here I do not want to open up another home bakery, but I still baking, and as a retired teacher, I left. So I have decided to share my skills with you on skill share. These cookies are for the baker that would like to learn how to make a pressed cookie that is just a little bit different than the traditional spritz cookie. I look forward to teaching you the skills in this class. Let's move on to lesson number one, making the cookie dough. 2. 02 Making the Dough: We are ready to start making the dough for our cookies. We're going to start by getting our lime ready. We need one teaspoon of the lime zest, and that's this outer layer of the lime. Now I've got a, I can put on my hand like this and then that if you have just a very fine grater like this, you can use that too. And you would just stick it over the bowl. Your line into the bowl. Now, when you're grading, I'll go ahead and use the grater so that I can show you. When you're grading it, you want to make sure that you don't go down into the white part. You want to stay with the green part. See where you get into the white. You want to stop. That's why I do just a little bit. Then I move to another spot. It's going to take a few minutes to get that one teaspoon of lime zest. You may even need more than one line to get it. The reason you don't want to get the white part, which is called the pith, is because it's very clear and you don't want the bitter. I just keep going until I have this done and we'll be back when I have my one teaspoon. This is what I got from this one line going to get a teaspoon out to show you what if that's a teaspoon or not. I just want to put this in here. As I'm filling this up, there's a little bit left in there and that's not totally filled, but that's going to be close enough to one teaspoon that I'm going to be good with that. The other thing we need to do with the lime is we need to get two teaspoons of lime juice. I'm going to cut my lime in half. I've got this type of a juicer. I just stick my lime in there and I squeeze the juice comes out. I need to get two teaspoons of lime juice. This juice I actually brought to room temperature, this one looks like it may actually give me my two teaspoons. Sometimes I don't get that much juice out of it. I'll always buy a couple of limes in case one is not going to be enough. But this is looking like that one's going to give me that, two teaspoons. Now we're ready to continue on with making our dough in this large bowl, we're going to put in our butter and our sugar and we want to cream this. I'm going to start it on the lower speed while the sugar blends into the butter. Once I see the sugar is blended into the butter. Okay, now we're going to just let this run until it free, that looks creamed. Now to that, we're going to beat in our egg. At the egg, our lime zest. I want to measure my lime juice to that two teaspoons. This measuring spoon is a two teaspoon measuring spoon, and I want to put just a little bit of green food coloring in. I like using the gel food coloring. This is getting low. Oh, we put a lime in. Now we want to mix this. I also want to add my vanilla, and that's 12 teaspoon. We're going to set this aside for a minute, and we're going to work with our dry ingredients in this bowl. I want to add 2.2 cups of flour, 14 teaspoon of salt, and 14 teaspoon of baking powder. And then I'm just going to use a whisk, Risk it together. We're now going to slowly combine this with this mixture. I'm going to start by dumping just a little bit in turn this on very low. Okay, let me add a little bit more in. I'm probably going to add two pots left that then let me add my last bit. Then we want this next starting on now I want to script this down and there we have our dough. In our next lesson, I will show you how to use the cookie press to make the cookies. 3. 03 Using the Cookie Press: We are ready to start making the cookies or forming the cookies using the cookie press. Let me show you how we do this. These are the parts of the cookie press. I've taken this out of there and I'm going to unscrew this. I do that so I can stick my cookie shaped disc in there, and then I just screw that on. Then I'm going to pick the cookie dough in here. And I just want to carefully get that to go in. And I want to get that to go down in. I'm using a spoon that I can fit in there. And then I'll get some more and I'll get it to go down in. I want to try to have as few air bubbles as possible because any air bubbles that are in there will make the cooking not turn out the way we want. I'm basically pushing this down until I've got that whole thing full. If you don't have enough dough to totally fill it, and then just push it all the way down to the bottom. As you can see, it is starting to get down to the bottom. Just what we want. If you look at the side, it's not so we need to get it down all the way around. You just keep pushing it in. I don't want to put too much in at a time now because it's starting to get full and I want to be able to push what I do put on top in. Now, it does take a little bit of work to fill your cookie press, but you're going to see just how easy it is to form the cookies once you have this filled properly. When you look at this, you can see that it's pretty much has the dough down there. I'm going to push just a little bit because I see an air bubble here and I do want to get that air bubble out. I want to scrape this so that that's flat. Then I do want to try to clean where you screw it on. With that done, I'm now going to take this and I want to screw it on. There we go. With that done. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to set this on my cookie sheet. Just click, we should have a cookie. And I stick another one next to it. Click, and we've got a cookie. And I'm just going to continue doing this. Oops, that one didn't go. Let's try it again until I have my cookie sheet full. Your cookie press gives you the spacing. You just keep going until you have a tray of cookies. We'll be back at that point. There I have a tray full of cookies. It all of that cookie dough, I still have cookie dough left in my bowl. But what I want to do is I want to take this Christmas tree one out and put in there, change it with this Holly. I'm then going to screw my press and using my spoon, I'm going to feel this pushing that down in, I have the holly leaf. I'm just putting it on just like I did the Christmas tree. Both of these have the cookies there. 4. 04 The Sprinkles: Both of these have the cookies there. Now what I want to do is I want to put the decorations I'm going to put on top, because these are Christmas trees. I'm putting these little sprinkles on top so that it looks like little ornaments on my tree. I put them in my hand, thinking I'd have better control, but it doesn't seem to really be given a better control. I think I'm just going to go ahead and sprinkle like this now on these holly ones because they're all green. Well, they do have the red berry, but I'm just going to keep them all green. I'm just going to sprinkle it with these green sugar, and it just gives it a little bit of decoration. These are now ready to bake. The next lesson I will show you how to bake and cool them. 5. 05 Baking and Cooling: My oven has preheated to 350 degrees. We're ready to put the first pan of cookies in the oven. As you can see, I have the rack in the middle position and I'm just going to put my cookies on the rack. And then they're going to bake for eight to 10 minutes. Checking at 8 minutes, we'll be back to check them in 8 minutes. Our timer is about ready to go off for the 8 minutes. Let's look at the cookies and see if they're ready to come out. There's the timer. When I pull the cookies, you can see that they're starting to brown along the edges. We're going to very carefully take these out and swap them with our other ones that we did. We will give those eight to 10 minutes. Here's our cookies. This is our cooling rack. We're just going to very carefully move the cookies to the cooling rap so that they can cool. There's our first pan of cookies. There's sprinkles. I probably could have put more on, but there you have the lime spritz cookies. I did them in Christmas tree shape. If you're doing it for a different time than Christmas, use any shape you want. 6. 06 Final Thoughts: Thank you for taking this class. We had fun making these lime spritz pressed cookies. We first learned how to make the cookie dough with the cookie dough made. We then filled up the cookie press and we used the cookie press to form the cookies. After we had formed the cookies, we sprinkled the sugar on the cookies. We then baked our cookies in the oven and then let them cool. I hope your cookies turned out the way you wanted them to. The recipe for these cookies is in the project section. Your project for this class is to make these lime sp pressed cookies. You can choose what shape you want them to be by what stencil you put in your cookie press. Please make sure to post a picture of your cookies and let us know how it went from my kitchen to your kitchen. Happy Baking.