Best Homemade Butter Cookies Recipe
Butter Cookies
Course: CookiesCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: EasyServings
4
servingsPrep time
30
minutesCooking time
40
minutesCalories
kcal
300
Total time
1
hour10
minutesThe best butter cookies recipe you will ever try with simple ingredients and simple steps. These easy butter cookies will melt in your mouth, they’re deliciously soft and crumbly. Make and give these as a homemade edible gift.
Ingredients
115g unsalted butter softened
55g caster sugar or powder sugar
135 g Plain flour
50g Cornstarch
10 g whole Egg
1 teaspoon Vanilla
Pinch of salt
Directions
- Heat the oven to 150C First, Beat the soft end unsalted butter for 2 minutes with a spatula.
- Then add the sugar and mix with a spatula together until pale and fluffy.
- Then add the egg and vanilla and continue mixing until all ingredients mixed up well.
- Sift in the flour, cornstarch, and salt and mix again well until just combined and becomes a dough.
- Spoon the dough into a piping bag fitted with a medium star nozzle.
- Line a baking tray with Parchment paper. Pipe the dough in small swirls on the large or two smaller baking trays lined with baking Parchment, spacing them apart to allow for them to spread. (If you don’t have a piping bag you can make them in balls).
- Bake them in preheated oven at 150C for 20_25 minutes until pale golden.
- Leave to cool on the trays for 5 mins, then transfer to a wire rack to cool