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Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Add the butter and granulated sugar to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Line your baking sheets with parchment. You can have Butter cookies using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Butter cookies

It's 1/2 cup of butter, at room temperature.
Prepare 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
It's 2 cups of all-purpose flour.
You need 1 of egg yolk.
You need 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
You need of Milk, as needed (add a splash if the dough is too dry).
Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
Prepare of Food colouring, optional.

Prepare cookies as directed above omitting frosting. Tint with food color, if des This is a simple butter cookie that can be used in a cookie press, as a drop cookie or made into a roll and sliced. There is no mystery cookie for a cookie press.any stiff butter type can be used. Just be sure to chill it thoroughly so it keeps its shape while baking.

Butter cookies step by step

In a large mixing bowl, combine the butter and sugar. Mix with an electric mixer or whisk until light and paler in colour..
Add in the egg yolk and vanilla and whisk again. (If you want to pipe your cookies, also add 1/3 cup milk and freeze the piped cookies for about 30 minutes before baking.).
Next, add in the dry ingredients and with a spatula fold it in and mix until a dough forms, if the dough is too dry, add a splash of milk at a time until a firm but slightly soft dough forms..
Colour the dough as desired if doing so..
Roll out the dough to about 1/4 of an inch thickness and cut out the cookies..
Place them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and bake at 325 degrees fahrenheit anywhere between 15 - 20 minutes, depending on how big or thick your cookies are..
Let them cool completely and glaze and add sprinkles if desired. Or decorate with piping gel or any other sugar glaze. Happy Holidays and Baking and Enjoy!.

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour and salt. In a medium bowl using a hand mixer, beat butter and sugar until light. For a crisper cookie leave the baking sheet in the oven, turned off and the door cracked slightly open after baking. This will help dehydrate the cookies further to that butter cookie out of the tin crunch. This recipe can be used for cut out cookies.