Spritzgebäck
Spritzgebäck (German: [ˈʃpʁɪt͡sɡəˌbɛk] ), also called a spritz cookie in the United States, is a type biscuit or cookie of German and Alsatian-Mosellan origin made of a rich shortcrust pastry. When made correctly, the cookies are crisp, fragile, somewhat dry, and buttery. 
The German root verb spritzen (German: [ˌʃpʁɪt͡sn̩] ) is cognate with the English to spurt.  As the name implies, these cookies are made by squeezing, or spritzing, the dough through a 
cookie press fitted with patterned holes (or extruded through a cake decorator or pastry bag to which a variety of nozzles may be fitted).
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