Flavorful butter cookies. Beat butter, confectioners' sugar, vanilla and enough milk to reach a spreading consistency. If desired, tint with food coloring. Eight different kinds - one easy recipe. And, oh, that delicious, real butter flavor when you make 'em the real butter way! (NOTE: The prep time will vary by cookie and if the recipe calls for chilling the dough. This updated version uses all butter and a food processor for wonderful flavor and ease of mixing.
The rich yeast dough actually contains no sugar, but the sweetness and the layering results from well sugaring the dough and work surface, while rolling and folding it several times prior to cutting and shaping the cookies.
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This is a basic butter cookie recipe, with lemon and cardamom for extra flavor.
You can have Flavorful butter cookies using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Flavorful butter cookies
- It's 3 cups of plain flour.
- You need 1 cup of sugar.
- It's 1 cup of butter.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 of egg.
- It's 2 tsp of lemon juice.
- It's of Zest from one lemon.
- It's 3 tsp of matcha tea.
In half of the dough I added some matcha tea, to make lovely green trees!!! Choose if you like to have both plain and green cookies or just one color. #onerecipeonetree The neat part is that the butter flavor is not obvious. However, the butter flavor takes an ordinary sugar cookie to the next level …. beyond mouthwatering! My butter flavored sugar cookies have an extra hint of vanilla too.
Flavorful butter cookies instructions
- Cream the butter with the sugar. Add the egg and beat some more..
- Add the salt, zest, cardamom and 1 tsp of lemon juice. Beat. Add the flour in batches and beat until you have a nice dough..
- Take half of the dough and add the matcha tea and the rest of the juice. Beat to get the green dough. Put both in a container, cover well and put in the fridge for at least an hour..
- Place the dough between two sheets of wax paper. It will be easier to roll out..
- Roll it out until it is about 5mm thick. Cut shapes and place them on a cookie sheet. This dough will not lose its shape so it’s perfect for making different shapes.
- Put in a preheated oven, 180C, for about 8 minutes (depends on how big/thick your cookies are). They should not brown..
- Take them out of the oven and let them cool. You can let them as they are or you can decorate them. Here I decorated them with royal icing..
You MUST try this simple twist if you plan on making sugar cookies anytime soon. There's no leavening, so the texture is closer to a shortbread cookie. The dough is like my spritz cookies, but with a little milk to make it pipe-able. Make sure it's properly softened to room temperature before beginning. Butter cookies—also known as Dutch biscuits—are delicious, crispy cookies that are quick and easy to make.