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
- Beat butter and sugar together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in egg
- 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.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Chill two cookie sheets.
- Transfer chilled dough to a cookie press; press out onto chilled cookie sheets.
- Bake in the preheated oven until lightly golden at the edges
- 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