Butter Cookies

Servings:

This simple butter cookies recipe can be used in a cookie press, made as a drop cookie, or shaped into a roll and sliced. There is no special cookie recipe for a cookie press — any stiff butter type of cookie can be used! Just be sure to chill it thoroughly so it keeps its shape while baking.

Prep
15 min
Cook
24 min
Servings
Difficulty
Medium

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 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. 2 Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Chill two cookie sheets.
  3. 3 Transfer chilled dough to a cookie press; press out onto chilled cookie sheets.
  4. 4 Bake in the preheated oven until lightly golden at the edges, about 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire racks to cool.

Nutrition per serving

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