Spritz Butter Christmas Cookies

• 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• Green food coloring (liquid or gel)
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• Sprinkles or colored sugar, for decorating

1. Preheat the oven to 375u0b0 F.
2. Beat the butter and sugar together with an electric mixer at medium speed until fluffy and light. Add the egg and vanilla extract and continue to beat until combined.
3. Add the green food coloring drop by drop, using the electric mixer to incorporate, until you reach your desired hue; gel food coloring will take fewer drops than liquid. I usually use 4 drops of gel food coloring to get a nice pale green color (anything too too green gets Grinch-y and creepy).
4. Add the flour and salt to the green mixture; stir with a wooden spoon to combine.
5. Pack the dough into your cookie press, fitted with the disk design for wreathes or trees (or whatever! Live your life). Press the dough into shapes on a cookie sheet, spaced about 1 inch apart. Don't grease your cookie sheet or use parchment paper-the stickiness will help release the shape from the press. Decorate the cookies with sprinkles or colored sugar, if using.
6. Bake until slightly golden at the bottom edges, about 7 to 9 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before storing, at room temperature, in an airtight container.

unsalted butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, green food coloring, flour, kosher salt, sprinkles

Taken from food52.com/recipes/39582-spritz-butter-christmas-cookies (may not work)