These Peanut Butter Spritz Cookies are a classic Christmas cookie with peanut butter flavors. This easy spritz cookie recipe can be made using your favorite cookie press shape, making it perfect for any occasion.
This recipe makes a large batch of cookies, making them the perfect Christmas Spritz Cookies!
Like frosted sugar cookies, these soft, peanut buttery, and delicious Spritz Cookies make delicious Christmas spritz cookies! These bite-sized cookies make an excellent addition to a holiday cookie tray and tins.
Ingredients in Peanut Butter Spritz Cookies
- salted butter, room temperature
- creamy peanut butter
- granulated sugar
- dark brown sugar, packed
- eggs
- vanilla extract
- all-purpose flour
- baking powder
- baking soda
- salt
How to Make Peanut Butter Spritz Cookies
- Place light-colored, ungreased baking sheets in the refrigerator to chill before baking.
- Cream the softened butter and peanut butter together in a large bowl using an electric mixer at medium speed.
- Beat in the brown and granulated sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs and vanilla extract and mix until combined.
- Combine the all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl.
- Add the dry ingredients into the peanut butter mixture a little at a time, making sure to scrape the sides of the bowl until a soft dough forms.
- Divide the dough into three equal pieces and wrap with plastic wrap.
- Allow the dough to sit for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
- Using your cookie press and a disc of your choice, add the dough to your cookie press barrel.
- Press cookies onto the chilled ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake cookies of the same size at the same time.
- Bake for 8-12 minutes or until the bottoms of the cookies are lightly browned.
- Allow the cookies to cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
- Store in an airtight container.
Tips for Making Spritz Cookies
- Chill your cookie sheet- Chilling the cookie sheet between batches will help the cookie dough stick when using the cookie press. An ungreased cookie sheet is ideal for these cookies, and skip out on the parchment paper when making spritz cookies.
- Bake the same-sized shapes together- bake the same cookie shapes together for the best results and even browning. Smaller disk shapes will take less time to bake!
- Make the cookies festive- add some colored sugar to the cookies before baking or use gel food coloring to change the color of the cookies.
- Read your manufacturer's instructions for how to use your cookie press. Not all cookie presses are the same! Some are electric cookie presses and some are a one-click-per-cookie type press.
- If using an electric cookie press, use the high speed setting in a 1,2,3 motion.
- For Christmas cookies, use the Christmas tree disc to make bite-sized Christmas trees and dye the dough a bright green and decorate with sprinkles.
- For tender cookies, avoid overbaking and remove the cookies to a wire rack after 5 minutes. You can make some great spritz cookies that taste delicious and have a wonderful texture by avoiding this.
Christmas Cookie Recipe Ideas
Just like these Christmas spritz cookies, these cookies are Christmas classics:
Peanut Butter Blossoms are a Christmas classic cookie and a great addition to cookie platters during the holiday season.
Snowball Christmas Cookies or Mexican Wedding Cookies are filled with bits of pecans and rolled in powdered sugar and are a must on a cookie platter for Christmas.
📖 Recipe
Peanut Butter Spritz Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup salted butter - softened
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup dark brown sugar - packed
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Place light colored cookie sheets in the refrigerator to chill before baking.
- Cream together the softened butter and peanut butter together in a large bowl using a hand mixer on medium speed.
- Beat in the brown sugar and granulated sugar until mixture is light and fluffy.
Add the eggs and vanilla extract and mix until combined. - In a separate bowl, combine the all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Add the dry ingredients into the peanut butter mixture a little at a time, making sure to scrape the sides of the bowl.
- Divide the dough into three equal pieces and wrap with plastic wrap.
- Allow the dough to sit for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
- Using your cookie press and disc of your choice and add the dough to your cookie press.
- Press the cookies onto the ungreased chilled cookie sheet.
- If desired, sprinkle granulated sugar on top of the cookies.
- Bake same size cookies at the same time.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes or until the bottoms of the cookies are lightly browned.
- Allow the cookies to cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
Notes
- Chill your cookie sheet- An ungreased cookie sheet is ideal for these cookies, and skip out on the parchment paper when making spritz cookies.
- When using smaller cookie shapes, bake for a minute or two less or until the bottoms are lightly browned.
Nutrition
Nutritional information is an estimate based on third-party calculations. Actual values may vary due to ingredients, measurements, and serving sizes.
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King Django says
I have made peanut butter spritz cookies in my press using other recipes many, many times.
This dough is too dry for a cookie press. It would be fine for regular old peanut butter cookies, but really does not properly take the intended shape using the press. They taste good and texture is decent as well, but I will be going back to an old recipe if I want to use the press again.
Hi! This recipe is directly from the Wearever SuperShooter Cookie Press booklet from the 1970's.
These are nice little cookies to add as fillers for my cookie trays. They have a nice texture as well