Lemon Cream Cheese Poppy Seed Spritz Cookies

Christmas is around the corner.I started my baking project since last week.This year I like to try something new so I bought a set of cookie presser from Wilton. Well,this cookies presser is a big disappointment for me.I hardy can pump the dough out nicely without making mess and this cookies presser used battery not manual pumping.After few tried the pump work but the dough doesn't cut off it'self when the presser stop *sigh*. I end up throwing the cookies presser in the sink and decided to use icing bag with tip to shape the dough to save all the aggravation.Well,maybe the cookies presser is not really up to my expectation or maybe I'm impatient to experiment the cool gadget for now .I think I should try to used the cookie presser again in my own pace when time allowed later.Anyhow ,using icing bag with tip to create this miniature cookies is really easy,simply and not to said it's pretty!! Thanks to Gertrude of My Kitchen Snippets who present me the beautiful silver pearl sprinkle:)

Ingredients:

2 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 cup unsalted butter,softened,(2 sticks)
1 package cream cheese(4oz) room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg,room temperature
3/4 tsp lemon extract
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 tsp grated lemon peel
1 tbsp poppy seeds

3 tbsp milk
1/4 tsp salt

icing and pearl sprinkle for decoration
Method;

1:Preheat oven to 350 F.Prepare 2 baking sheet with parchment paper.
2:Cream butter and cream cheese together in mixer bowl ,then add sugar and mix well until fluffy and light.
3:Add egg,vanilla ,lemon extract,lemon peel ,milk and poppy seeds,mix well.
4:Gradually add flour and salt to creamed mixture.Prepared icing bag with desired tip,fill creamed mixture 1/2 bag full,pressed shapes onto ungreased cookies sheet.
5:Bake 12-15 minutes or until lightly golden brown.Cool on cookies sheet on cooling rack 2 minutes.
6:Remove from cookies sheet and cool completely on rack. To decorate the sprinkle,use butter icing and any desired color or shape sprinkle on it.

Yield 4 dozen cookies.