Classic Spritz Cookies

These are our favorite spritz cookies, very important for Christmas, Easter and Valentines Day. The secret ingredient is almond extract. The secret for well formed cookies for me is to get them extruded as quickly as possible as you shouldn't refrigerate the dough and the longer it sits the harder it is to makeperfect cookies. I used to put a lot of food cooling into the dough, but now I don't and just use colored sugar. I like my Wilton press as it makes a lot of small cookies, and has great shapes for the holidays - hearts, trees, ducks, rabbits, boys, girls, dolphins! These are also great beacuse the taste of the butter comes through.