A cookie press is a device for making pressed cookies such as

spritzgebäck ''Spritzgebäck'' is a type of German and Alsatian-Mosellan biscuit or cookie made of a rich shortcrust pastry. When made correctly, the cookies are crisp, fragile, somewhat dry, and buttery. The German root verb ' is cognate with the English ' ...

. It consists of a cylinder with a plunger on one end, which is used to

extrude Extrusion is a process used to create objects of a fixed cross-sectional profile by pushing material through a die of the desired cross-section. Its two main advantages over other manufacturing processes are its ability to create very complex ...

cookie dough through a small hole at the other end. Typically the cookie press has interchangeable perforated plates with holes in different shapes, such as a star shape or a narrow slit to extrude the dough in ribbons.

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