Cow Shaped Butter Cookies
Simple butter cookie recipe with some techniques to make multi toned shaped cookies
Ingredients
- 220 g Unsalted Butter
- 160 g White Granulated Sugar
- 350 g Flour
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1 Egg
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 Tbsp Cocoa Powder
Instructions
- Pre heat oven to 180 C
- In a bowl, beat butter with the sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add the egg and vanilla extract and mix.
- Sift the flour with the salt and add to the mixture.
- Transfer the dough to a working surface and knead with hand to form the dough.
- Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for one hour.
- Remove from the fridge and now take a small portion of the dough and mix it with cocoa powder to make it brown for the cow patches.
- Roll the white dough and put patches of brown dough in spaces. Use any cookie cutter of your choice and cut shapes.
- Transfer into a baking tray and bake in 180 C oven for 10-12 minutes.