Butter Cookies II

Description

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.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 ⅔ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. Beat butter and sugar together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in egg
  2. then stir in the vanilla. Combine flour and salt in a separate bowl; add to butter mixture and mix to form a dough. Cover dough with plastic wrap and chill for at least one hour.
  3. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Chill two cookie sheets.
  4. Transfer chilled dough to a cookie press; press out onto chilled cookie sheets.
  5. Bake in the preheated oven until lightly golden at the edges
  6. about 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire racks to cool.

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 10 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins

Servings: 36

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