These Spritsen are classic Dutch Cookies. You can buy this buttery, crumbly cookie everywhere in the Netherlands and now they are here in the US as well, through this recipe. Quick and easy to make.
Add butter and sugar to a bowl and mix until fluffy.
Add flour, salt and milk and mix again until the dough comes together.
THIS STEP IS OPTIONAL - Place the dough on parchment paper or on your clean counter and ‘rub/spread’ the dough back and forth with a spatula, bowl scraper or spoon. (NOTE1)
Transfer the dough to a piping bag with a large star nozzle and start to pipe a wave pattern on a parchment lined baking sheet. The wider the waves the bigger the cookie.
Pipe long strips, not individual cookies. In a perfect world you would pipe one long continuous strip. (NOTE 2)
Bake the spritsen in an oven of 375 degrees F for about 20 minutes or until golden brown.
Remove the baking sheetfrom the oven and immediately cut into ‘cookies’ of about 1.5-2 inches. Don’t wait until the cookie is cooled, it will break; when you do it while the cookie strip is still warm you’ll have no issue.
Allow the cookies to cool completely.
Enjoy!
Notes
It is said that 'rubbing/spreading' the dough will make it creamier and more supple. I tried it both ways and don’t really see a difference. It’s up to you.
Piping a continuous strip of spritsen is not easy as the dough is, in that respect, tough. Just pipe as long as you can and then start a new strip.