Easy Homemade Butter Cookies. Add the flour to make batter stiff. Divide remaining sugar into bowls and color with food coloring. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and white sugar until light and fluffy.
Cover dough, and chill for at least one hour. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture. In a large bowl, add the room temp (or softened) butter. You can cook Easy Homemade Butter Cookies using 6 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Easy Homemade Butter Cookies
- You need 180 g of All Purpose Flour.
- It's 65 g of Brown Sugar (powdered or crushed).
- You need 15 ml of Vanilla Essence.
- It's 110 g of Unsalted Butter.
- Prepare 20 of ml/g Palm Sugar (Gula Melaka) [Optional].
- Prepare 1.5 tsp of Sea Salt.
Add sugar and Mix with hand mixer till well combined. Then add egg white and mix until creamy, pale and fluffy. Then add the vanilla and mix. Cream the butter and the sugar together until it's light and fluffy.
Easy Homemade Butter Cookies step by step
- Cut the r.t.p butter into cubes and place them in the mixing bowl..
- Whip them with a mixer until soft and smooth..
- Add powdered sugar or crushed granulated sugar into the mixing bowl and whip, whip, whip! 👏.
- Once you get a soft and creamy consistency, stop mixing and stiff the flour into the mixing bowl. Always always stiff flour ! It always helps with the texture..
- Mix the flour with the butter paste until a soft doughy batter forms. Add more flour if it is too sticky..
- Make sure that the dough soft but not too hard like bread dough..
- Add Palm Sugar into the dough and mix one last time. [Optional if you don't want it to be too sweet or don't have palm sugar].
- You should be able to form a ball with the dough. If it is too thick or not creamy enough, just add more butter into the mixture..
- Form any preferable size of balls and place them onto a baking tray. Remeber to oil the baking tray or place a baking sheet yah 😉..
- Gently press the balls of dough one by one with a fork and bake it to 180 degree celcius for 15-25 min depending on your oven..
- Take out the cookies and test with a toothpick. If it is abit hard inside, then it's ready 😗👌.
Add the egg and the vanilla. Sift the flour and the baking powder together. With the mixer running on low, spoon the flour mixture into the butter mixture. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl. Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl.