I Tried the Viral Gravestone Cookies and They Really Are To Die For

Here's a recipe we'll be sharing for eternity.

When a loved one passes away, there are often lots of sweet food-related memories left behind. From grandma’s mouth-watering banana bread to Dad's World Famous Lasagna, families build memories on the meals that have been prepared for them by the people they cherish most. TikToker Rosie Grant has taken left-behind food memories a step further. On her @ghostlyarchive account, she’s gone viral for finding recipes left on gravestones of the deceased and making those foods, sometimes even traveling to the grave itself to deliver her version of the recipe in person.

One of the first recipes to get Grant’s unique hobby recognized was for spritz cookies. The recipe appears on the gravestone of Naomi Odessa Miller-Dawson, who rests at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y. According to Medium, Dawson was a mother and postal worker who loved to bake in her free time. Her spritz cookie recipe was famous among her family and friends, and she made them with a hand-operated cookie press from the 1950s.

The cookies are essentially a vanilla butter cookie recipe, very similar to sugar cookies. Unlike sugar cookies, spritz cookies are usually piped onto a cookie sheet through a cookie press and baked in shapes like stars and Christmas trees. Similar to a shortbread, spritz cookies usually include lots of butter and ingredients like flour and an egg.

I Tried the Viral Gravestone Cookie Recipe

I tried Dawson’s memorialized spritz cookie recipe in my own kitchen and was impressed with how simple it was to make the batter. Using a hand mixer, I creamed ingredients including sugar, flour, vanilla, and an egg into a cup of softened butter. When the dough was combined and soft, I added it to a cookie press I’d ordered online specifically for the occasion.

I quickly learned that using a cookie press takes some practice. My versions of Dawson’s cookies weren’t the most beautiful, but after baking them at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes, they were buttery and golden brown. Straight from the oven, they were truly to die for—buttery, warm, and melt-in-your-mouth perfect. I would definitely make them again, especially to continue practicing using my new cookie press.

How To Make the Viral Gravestone Spritz Cookies

Gravestone Spritz Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of butter or margarine, softened

• ¾ cup granulated white sugar

• 1 teaspoon vanilla

• 1 egg

• 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour

• ½ teaspoon baking powder

• ⅛ teaspoon salt

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 400°F.

2. Beat butter (or margarine) in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in sugar until combined. Beat in egg and vanilla until combined. Beat in flour, baking powder, and salt until combined.

3. Transfer the dough into a cookie press.

4. Press individual spritz cookies onto baking sheets about 2 inches apart.

5. Bake until the cookies are golden brown, about 10 minutes.
   

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