Receta Spritz Cookies

When I was growing up, my mum often made biscuits she calls “Pusher Biscuits”, because they are made with a biscuit press.  More commonly, these biscuits are known as Spritz Cookies, or Spritzgeback (squirt cookies) in I was (and am) fascinated by the various shapes formed when the biscuit dough was extruded from the biscuit press. They are just so These biscuits are shortbread like in flavour, and Mum always sandwiches them in pairs with water The dough is simple enough to make, but it is important to get a sufficiently firm consistency for the biscuits to be extruded correctly from the biscuit press. The biscuit press itself can be rather temperamental, and there were a couple of discs that would not work for me,…