The key to making the cookie successfully is to choose the right ingredients. Christmas cookies are always a favorite with Southern Living readers, so it is little wonder that this recipe for Basic Butter Cookie dough became a holiday favorite. Easy butter cookies are pretty enough for a cookie exchange but easy enough to make any day of the week.

Ingredients of Basic butter cookies

  1. You need 210 g of cake flour.
  2. You need 60 g of powdered sugar.
  3. Prepare 160 g of unsalted butter, room temperature.
  4. Prepare 1 of egg (approx 30g), room temperature.
  5. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
  6. It's 1 tsp of salt.

Basic butter cookies instructions

  1. Preheat oven 180 degrees C..
  2. Cream the butter. Add the salt and sugar with the room temperature butter and whisk until ivory colour..
  3. Add vanilla extract to the egg and mix it. Whisk it in the creamed butter little at a time until fully incorporated..
  4. Sift in flour and fold it in the creamed mixture until flour cannot be seen..
  5. Use a big pipette to pipe it onto the baking tray. Ensure there is sufficient space between the cookies..
  6. Bake for 10 - 12 mins or until the sides are golden brown..
  7. Adapted from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeLAe80Do0g&t=1s.

Add the flour to make batter stiff. Not too sweet, but nice and buttery. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. In large bowl of a standing electric mixer beat together butter, sugar, and salt until light and fluffy. Cream the butter in a large bowl with a wooden spoon or in a food mixer until it is soft.

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