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Butter Cookies

Name: Butter Cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 100 min
Yield: 36 servings
Cuisine: International
Ingredients: 1 cup butter; 1 cup white sugar; 1 egg; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 2.6666667461395 cups all-purpose flour; 0.25 teaspoon salt

This simple butter cookie recipe can be made as a drop cookie, used in a cookie press, or shaped into a roll and sliced. Perfect for baking with kids!

Prep Time

15 min

Cook Time

10 min

Total Time

100 min

Servings

Ingredients

1 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2.6666667461395 cups all-purpose flour
0.25 teaspoon salt

Instructions

1

{'id': 'step_0', 'step': 1, 'text': '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.'}
2

{'id': 'step_1', 'step': 2, 'text': 'Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Chill two cookie sheets.'}
3

{'id': 'step_2', 'step': 3, 'text': 'Transfer chilled dough to a cookie press; press out onto chilled cookie sheets.'}
4

{'id': 'step_3', 'step': 4, 'text': 'Bake in the preheated oven until lightly golden at the edges, about 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire racks to cool.'}