Tule author Nan Reinhardt shares her Poppy and Grandboy’s Holiday Spritz Cookie recipe!

Ingredients: 

1 cup butter-flavored Crisco
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract
2 cups all purpose flour

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Cram Crisco and sugar together until fluffy. Beat in egg, salt, vanilla and almond extract.
3. Work in flour until blended.
4. Force dough through a cookie press in desired shapes onto ungreased baking sheet.
5. Decorate with colored sugars.
6. Bake a 400 degrees to 5-7 minutes until set, but not brown. Cool slightly before moving to cooling racks.

Makes about 4-5 dozen cookies.

Note: dough may also be tinted with a few drops of food coloring for some added colorful fun!