How to Prepare Favorite Butter cookies

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, butter cookies. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Butter cookies is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Butter cookies is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook butter cookies using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Butter cookies:

1. Get 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
2. Prepare 1/2 cup granulated sugar
3. Take 2 cups all-purpose flour
4. Take 1 egg yolk
5. Prepare 2 tsp vanilla extract
6. Prepare Milk, as needed (add a splash if the dough is too dry)
7. Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
8. Make ready Food colouring, optional

Instructions to make Butter cookies:

1. In a large mixing bowl, combine the butter and sugar. Mix with an electric mixer or whisk until light and paler in colour.
2. Add in the egg yolk and vanilla and whisk again. (If you want to pipe your cookies, also add 1/3 cup milk and freeze the piped cookies for about 30 minutes before baking.)
3. Next, add in the dry ingredients and with a spatula fold it in and mix until a dough forms, if the dough is too dry, add a splash of milk at a time until a firm but slightly soft dough forms.
4. Colour the dough as desired if doing so.
5. Roll out the dough to about 1/4 of an inch thickness and cut out the cookies.
6. Place them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and bake at 325 degrees fahrenheit anywhere between 15 - 20 minutes, depending on how big or thick your cookies are.
7. Let them cool completely and glaze and add sprinkles if desired. Or decorate with piping gel or any other sugar glaze. Happy Holidays and Baking and Enjoy!

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