BUTter Cookies
 
Butter Cookies are thin, melt in the mouth, buttery, crisp cookies. Butter cookies are not only easy to make, but are perfect for gifting.
Ingredients
  • 340 gms - Unsalted butter,room temperature
  • 1 cup - Castor sugar
  • 1 tsp - Vanilla extract
  • 3½ cups - All purpose flour
  • ¼ tsp - salt
  • 1 tbsp - Cocoa powder
Instructions
  1. Cream the butter and sugar using an electric blender. This will usually take 8 minutes. Till the mixture gets creamy, fluffy and light.
  2. Add vanilla extract and egg at this point incase of using egg. Mix well till combined.
  3. Reduce the speed to 1 and now gradually add the All Purpose Flour. Till everything comes together.
  4. Take out ¾ of this mixture onto a greased platform, bring it together. Wrap it in a clingfilm. Flatten it into a disk and refrigerate for 15 to 20 minutes.
  5. Add cocoa powder to the remaining dough in the bowl and mix it on speed 1 till combined well. Remove it, Wrap it in the clingfilm, flatten and refrigerate.
  6. Remove the dough disks and place them in between two layers of grease proof paper and roll it to a 3mm thick sheet. And place it in the refrigerator for 15mins. This will harden the dough and help cut crisp, sharp edges.
  7. Preheat the oven to 180degree. Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
  8. Cut the plain vanilla dough sheet using 2"cookie cutter.
  9. Place the cut shapes on the cookie sheet with one finger distance. The egg cookies don't spread a lot while baking so you can place them closer. The eggless ones spread a little so place them in 1" distance.
  10. Poke holes in them using toothpicks and sprinkle granulated sugar on some.
  11. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or till they are golden brown and darker at the edges.
  12. Leave them on the cookie sheet for a couple of minutes and then transfer them onto a cooling rack. let it cool completely. Store it in an airtight container.
Recipe by MADaboutkitchen at https://madaboutkitchen.in/butter-cookies/