Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, butter cookies. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

There is no mystery cookie for a cookie press.any stiff butter type can be used. Beat in the egg, then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour and salt; stir into the sugar mixture.

Butter cookies is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Butter cookies is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have butter cookies using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Butter cookies:

1. Get 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
2. Take 1/2 cup granulated sugar
3. Take 2 cups all-purpose flour
4. Take 1 egg yolk
5. Prepare 2 tsp vanilla extract
6. Make ready Milk, as needed (add a splash if the dough is too dry)
7. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
8. Take Food colouring, optional

Measure the flour, use a scale if possible but if you don't have one make sure to fluff your flour and spoon it into your measuring cup. Add the room temperature butter to the bowl of your stand mixer. Danish butter cookies are a delicious melt in your mouth biscuit/cookie. They're the sort of biscuit you get it in biscuit tins at Christmas but are the perfect treat for any time of year.

Steps to make Butter cookies:

1. In a large mixing bowl, combine the butter and sugar. Mix with an electric mixer or whisk until light and paler in colour.
2. Add in the egg yolk and vanilla and whisk again. (If you want to pipe your cookies, also add 1/3 cup milk and freeze the piped cookies for about 30 minutes before baking.)
3. Next, add in the dry ingredients and with a spatula fold it in and mix until a dough forms, if the dough is too dry, add a splash of milk at a time until a firm but slightly soft dough forms.
4. Colour the dough as desired if doing so.
5. Roll out the dough to about 1/4 of an inch thickness and cut out the cookies.
6. Place them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and bake at 325 degrees fahrenheit anywhere between 15 - 20 minutes, depending on how big or thick your cookies are.
7. Let them cool completely and glaze and add sprinkles if desired. Or decorate with piping gel or any other sugar glaze. Happy Holidays and Baking and Enjoy!

With only a few ingredients, they're relatively quick and easy to bake, and make great gifts for friends and family during the festive season. Butter cookies (or butter biscuits), known as Brysselkex, Sablés, and Danish biscuits, are unleavened cookies consisting of butter, flour, and sugar. They are often categorized as a "crisp cookie" due to their texture, caused in part because of the quantity of butter and sugar. Butter cookies—also known as Dutch biscuits—are delicious, crispy cookies that are quick and easy to make. Even better, the recipe only uses pantry staples!

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