Gluten-Free Spritz Cookies

Buttery, crisp spritz cookies pressed into wreaths, trees and flowers with a cookie press. The soft gluten-free butter dough needs no chilling and bakes in about 8 minutes, so trays of holiday cookies come together quickly.

Prep: 25 min Cook: 20 min Total: 60 min Serves: 48

At a glance: This medium baking recipe yields 48 servings in about 1h (25 min prep, 20 min cook). It uses 9 ingredients — including unsalted butter, granulated sugar, egg — and walks through 7 steps. Updated October 24, 2026. Browse more baking recipes or return to all gluten-free recipes.

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Cross-Contamination Warning for Gluten-Free Spritz Cookies: When preparing this baking recipe, cookie presses have many small parts and crevices. If yours has been used for dough with gluten, take it apart and wash every disk and the plunger thoroughly. Flour dust travels. Bake this on a day the kitchen is not also handling flour that contains gluten, use clean bowls, beaters and baking sheets, and keep the gluten-free flour blend in its own sealed container.

Gluten-Free Notes for Gluten-Free Spritz Cookies: The dough is a simple butter cookie made with a gluten-free all-purpose flour blend. Use extracts, sprinkles, colored sugar and a flour blend labeled gluten-free.

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Ingredients

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1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
2/3 cup granulated sugar Shop
1 large egg, at room temperature
1 tsp pure vanilla extract Shop
1/2 tsp pure almond extract Shop
1/4 tsp salt
2 1/4 cups gluten-free all-purpose flour blend (about 315 g) Shop
1/2 tsp xanthan gum (skip if your blend already contains it) Shop
colored sugar or sprinkles, for decorating (optional) Shop

Instructions

1 Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Use cool, ungreased and unlined metal baking sheets. Spritz dough has to stick to bare metal to release from the press.
2 Beat the butter and sugar on medium speed until light and creamy, about 2 minutes. Beat in the egg, vanilla, almond extract and salt.
3 Add the gluten-free flour blend and xanthan gum (if using) and mix on low just until a smooth, soft dough forms. Do not chill it; cold dough will not push through the press.
4 Fill the cookie press with dough and fit it with a disk. Hold the press upright and flat against the baking sheet, squeeze one click, and lift straight up. Space the cookies about 1 inch apart.
5 Decorate with colored sugar or sprinkles if you like, pressing them on lightly.
6 Bake for 7-9 minutes, until the cookies are set and just barely golden at the edges.
7 Let them cool on the sheet for 2 minutes, then move them to a rack. Let the baking sheet cool completely before pressing the next batch.

Tips & Notes

If the first few spritz cookies won't release from the press, the baking sheet is probably too warm or greased. Wipe it clean and let it cool fully.
If the dough feels too stiff to press, warm the filled press barrel in your hands for a minute. If it is too soft and the shapes blur, chill the filled press for 5 minutes.
Tint the spritz dough with gel food coloring labeled gluten-free rather than liquid color, which can make the dough too soft to hold sharp shapes.

Common questions

What cross-contamination risk is specific to Gluten-Free Spritz Cookies?

Check unsalted butter, softened, granulated sugar, egg, at room temperature before they go into Gluten-Free Spritz Cookies. Cookie presses have many small parts and crevices. If yours has been used for dough with gluten, take it apart and wash every disk and the plunger thoroughly. Flour dust travels. Bake this on a day the kitchen is not also handling flour that contains gluten, use clean bowls, beaters and baking sheets, and keep the gluten-free flour blend in its own sealed container.

Which gluten-free swaps does Gluten-Free Spritz Cookies use?

Gluten-Free Spritz Cookies relies on 2 1/4 cups gluten-free all-purpose flour blend and 1/2 tsp xanthan gum. Keep those gluten-free-labeled products in place of a gluten-containing flour or sauce.

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