Best Ever Spritz Cookies

2/3 cup sugar
1 cup Land O Lakes® butter, softened
1 egg
½ tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla
2¼ cups flour

In large bowl, combine sugar, butter, egg, salt and vanilla. Beat, scraping bowl often, until mixture is lightly and fluffy. 2 to 3 minutes. Add flour. Beat, scraping bowl often until well mixed 2 to 3 minutes. If desired, add the ingredients from one of the following variations. If dough is too soft, cover; refrigerate until firm enough to form cookies, 30 to 45 minutes.

Place dough into cookie press; form desired shapes 1” apart on cookie
sheets. Bake at 400° for 6 to 8 minutes or until edges are light browned.

Make about 5 dozen cookies

Lebkuchen Spice Spritz:
To the Spritz dough, add 1 tsp. each cinnamon and nutmeg, ½ tsp. allspice and ¼ tsp. cloves.

Glaze: In small bowl stir together 1 cup powdered sugar, 2 tbsp. milk and ½ tsp vanilla until smooth. Drizzle or pipe over warm cookies.

Eggnog Glazed Spritz:
To the Spritz dough, add 1 tsp. nutmeg.

Glaze: In small bowl stir together 1 cup powdered sugar; ¼ cup margarine,
softened; 2 tbsp water and ¼ tsp rum extract until smooth. Drizzle over
warm cookies.

Mint Kisses:
To the Spritz dough, add ¼ tsp. mint extract. Immediately after removing
cookies form oven, place 1 Hershey’s® chocolate candy kiss on each cookie.

Pina Colada Spritz:
Omit vanilla in Spritz dough recipe and add 1 tbsp. pineapple juice and ¼ tsp. rum extract; stir in ½ cup finely chopped coconut.

Frosting: In small bowl combine 1 cup powdered sugar, 2 tbsp margarine
softened; 2 tbsp pineapple preserves and 1 tbsp pineapple juice. Beat,
scraping bowl often, until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Spread on
cooled cookies. If desired, sprinkle with toasted coconut.

Chocolate Chip Sprtiz:
To Spritz dough add ¼ cup coarsely grated semisweet chocolate