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Butter Cookies Recipe
This recipe for Butter Cookies uses basic pantry staples to create a nostalgic, buttery, and melt-in-your-mouth treat. A holiday classic!
👥 36 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 45 min⏳ Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 15 min👤 Jess Rice📖 bellyfull
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- bowl
- mixing bowl
- oven
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Combine
2
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Combine 1 cup sugar, ½ tsp salt, and 1¼ cups (10 oz.) of room temperature butter in a mixing bowl and cream with a hand mixer on medium-low speed.
3
Beat
4
In a separate bowl, beat 3 egg yolks and 1 tsp vanilla extract together.
egg yolks3vanilla extract1 tsp
5
Mix
6
Add vanilla egg mixture to creamed sugar and butter and mix until combined.
7
Add 2½ cups of flour (¼ cup at a time) to the wet mixture until a sticky, thick dough forms.
8
Mix
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Then, add ¼ cup of milk and mix on medium-low speed until combined.
10
Mix
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Add milk, a teaspoon at a time, until your dough mixture is the consistency of Play-Doh. (I used 2 tbsp of additional milk total.)
12
Pipe
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Line your cookie sheets with parchment paper and test your cookie dough consistency by adding ¼ cup of dough to your piping bag. If it’s still too thick to pipe, put the dough back in the bowl and add another teaspoon of milk, mix, and try again.
14
Chill the piped/shaped cookies for ⏱️ 5-10 minutes in the refrigerator before baking to ensure they hold their shape.
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Bake the chilled cookies for ⏱️ 15 minutes or until the edges are just beginning to turn golden. This is a dense cookie, so I don’t recommend underbaking or going for the soft center you’d want with a chewy cookie.
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Sprinkle
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While your cookies are fresh out of the oven, sprinkle ¼ cup sanding sugar or additional granulated sugar on top to give it a sparkly, festive look and added texture.
granulated sugar1 cup¼ cup sanding sugar or additional granulated sugar (optional topping)
Nutrition Facts
calories
121 kcal
fat Content
7 g
serving Size
1 cookie
fiber Content
0.2 g
sugar Content
7 g
sodium Content
35 mg
protein Content
1 g
trans Fat Content
0.3 g
cholesterol Content
33 mg
carbohydrate Content
14 g
saturated Fat Content
4 g
unsaturated Fat Content
2.3 g
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