Butter Cookies Recipe
This recipe makes melt in your mouth flavorful butter cookies! It’s a keeper. A one bowl mixing soft cookie dough that can be piped into many different shapes.
Butter Cookie Recipe From Scratch:
Butter cookies are everyone’s favorite. They are delicious and flavorful. This homemade butter cookie recipe makes melt in your mouth butter cookies that you would want to make again and again. I made this batch a little special with valentines vibes. It’s a basic butter cookie recipe that you can play with for making fancy cookies as well. I often make a big batch and make different shapes and put different sprinkles on them to make them look diverse.
My other Easy Cookie recipes you might like:
Thin & Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe Video: Easy Butter Cookie Recipe
I have created a recipe video for making these quick and easy Butter biscuits and have already posted the video on my YouTube channel Bubli’s World Cuisine. It’s a step by step visual demonstration on how to make this simple one bowl cookie easily at home from scratch. To see the recipe in action from start to finish, please click on the video. And for a printable version of this recipe please check the recipe card at the end of the blog:
Ingredients:
Butter – It’s best to use unsalted butter and make sure they are at room temperature.
Sugar – White granulated sugar will do the job.
Salt – Incase you use salted butter skip the additional salt.
Egg – Large, room temperature.
Vanilla Extract – Try to use good quality Vanilla extract for best result.
Flour – Regular all purpose flour.
Butter Cookie Recipe Ingredients:
Unsalted Butter – 1 Cup
White Granulated Sugar – 1/2 Cup
All Purpose Flour – 2 Cups
Large Egg – 1
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Vanilla Extract – 1 tsp
How To Make Butter Soft Cookies From Scratch:
Pre heat oven to 350 F / 176 C.
Now beat together butter and sugar in a bowl.
Then add egg and vanilla extract and beat again.
Now add salt to flour and give a quick mix.
Finally add flour to butter mixture and beat until combined.
Next put the soft cookie dough into a piping bag with large nozzle and pipe your desired shapes onto a parchment paper lined baking tray.
Bake the cookies for 12-15 minutes which varies depending on the oven type.
Can You Freeze Homemade Butter Cookies?
Yes, these delicious butter cookies can be frozen before baking. To freeze the cookie dough you can either shape it into a log and wrap tightly in plastic wrap then again in a sealed bag or foil, or make your cookie shapes, cover and freeze the dough on a pan. After the cookie dough shapes are frozen, you can transfer them to a freezer safe container and they will stay good for up to one month.
Frozen cut outs will stay good for up to a month, and a frozen log will stay good for up to three months. After that time they will still be safe to bake/eat, but the quality will deteriorate.
Butter Cookie Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Unsalted Butter
- 1/2 Cup White Granulated Sugar
- 2 Cups All Purpose Flour
- 1 Large Egg
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Pre heat oven to 350 F / 176 C.
- Beat butter and sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy and pale in color.
- Add egg and vanilla extract and beat again to combine.
- Add salt to flour and give a quick mix.
- Add flour to butter mixture and beat until combined.
- Put soft cookie dough into a piping bag with large nozzle and pipe your desired shapes onto a parchment paper lined baking tray.
- Bake the cookies for 12-15 minutes which varies depending on the oven type.
Top Tips:
Make sure butter and sugar are at room temperature.
Do not overmix cookie dough.
Baking time varies from oven to oven so keep an eye after 10 minutes of baking.
Chill before baking so that they retain their lovely shapes.
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