BUTTER COOKIES

Soft, buttery, and very easy to make with a cookie press 🤍🍪 And even more dangerously easy to eat 🙃
I love the little shapes you get with a cookie press. They look fancy, but it’s really just a simple, fluffy shortcrust dough!
Perfect for merenda, coffee breaks, and gift boxes ✨

For the Italian version, see here.

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Ingredients (make about  50 cookies)

  • 270 g plain (00) flour
  • 170 g butter, softened
  • 90 g sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 sachet vanilla sugar / vanillin
  • Neutral vegetable oil, to lightly grease the press discs
  • Powder sugar for decoration (optional)
This is the cookie press I used. Got it at the Lidl like 12 years old!

Procedure

  1. In a stand mixer, beat the softened butter with the sugar until creamy and fluffy.
  2. Add the egg and the vanilla, and keep beating until everything is smooth and fully combined.
  3. Turn off the mixer. Add the flour little by little, mixing well with a wooden spoon. (This takes some strength!) You want a soft, smooth, homogeneous dough.
  4. Load the dough into a cookie press. Lightly grease the disc you chose with a bit of neutral vegetable oil, so the dough slides easily and doesn’t stick.
  5. Press the cookies directly onto an ungreased non-stick baking tray (or a plain metal tray). Hold the cookie press flat against the tray so the shape sticks properly.
  6. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for about 12 minutes, until just lightly golden.
  7. Let the cookies cool on the tray. Then, decorate as you like with powder sugar. I also used some silver sugar pearl because that’s what I had at home.

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