Spritzgebäck
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{{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}), also called a spritz cookie in the United States,<ref name="Wilson2011">Template:Cite book</ref> 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 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is cognate with the English 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 forcing bag to which a variety of nozzles may be fitted).