Have you lost the instruction manual for your cookie press? Or maybe your cookies haven't been turning out the way they look in the pictures? This page can help. Read on to learn how to use a cookie press.

Although there are many different models of cookie press on the market, they all share similar operating principles. You need to fill the press, and extrude the dough through a plate in order to form the cookie.

A cookie press is used to make shaped cookies. The dough is inserted into a tube, and then squeezed through a plate with a cut out shape onto a cookie sheet. There are two types of cookie presses available. One requires you to twist the press to extrude the dough; the other has a handle that you squeeze.

1. Fill the tube with dough. You can use premade sugar cookie dough, if you like. Most presses will take half a tube of dough.
2. Select the plate you are using, and insert it into the cookie press. This may entail tightening a ring, depending on the press model.
3. Pump or turn the handle until the dough is flush against the plate.
4. Place the cookie press on an ungreased cookie sheet.
5. Pump the press twice, or twist a half turn.
6. Lift the press, leaving the cookie on the sheet.e
7. Move the press two inches away from the first cookie, and repeat.

1. You may need to adjust the number of pumps or twists to get the size cookie you desire.
2. Some cookie press come with decorating tips. This can be used the same way you'd use a pastry bag to decorate cakes and cookies.
3. Allow chilled dough to come to room temperature before using for best results.
4. Do not grease cookie sheets, or the cookie will not separate from the cookie press.