Do any one know the recipe for good butter-cookies?!
Do any one know the recipe for good butter-cookies?
the kind they use to sell in the lunchroom they were so good i use to buy them all the time they were the best butter-cookies i ever ate i use to go to dusable h.s in chicago ill.that is the last place i know they were made
Answers:
try this one...
Butter Spritz Cookies
1 cup confectioners' sugar
2 sticks unsalted butter
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp almond extract
2 tsp baking powder
2 cups sifted flour
Sprinkles for garnish
1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2 In a mixer with a paddle attachment, add the sugar and the butter. Mix until light and fluffy. Add the egg, vanilla and almond extracts and mix to incorporate. Sift together the baking powder and the flour. Add the flour mixture. Mix until combined. Using a cookie press, press cookies onto ungreased cookie sheets. Top with the sprinkles of your choice. Bake for 5 to 8 minutes, or until firm, but not yet browning.
Servings: 24
Yield: 4 dozen
You can also roll them in a ball and press with the bottom of a glass.
INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup butter
1/3 cup white sugar
1 egg
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
Cream butter, and sugar continuing to beat. Beat in egg, then flour, and then vanilla.
Drop 2 inches apart on a greased cookie sheet. can top with chocolate chips.
Bake for 10 minutes.
use a chocolate cookie recipe but don't put in the chocolate chips, put a half a pound of butter in instead. yum yum delicious!!
SHORTBREAD COOKIES (similar to Girl Scout):
1/2 cup butter-flavored shortening
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons beaten egg
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons buttermilk
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon baking powder
1. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the shortening, sugar, vanilla and salt with an electric mixer.
2. Add the egg and beat mixture until it's fluffy. Add the baking soda and mix for about 20 seconds, then add the buttermilk; mix for an additional 30 seconds.
3. In another bowl, combine the flour and baking powder.
4. Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix well with an electric mixer until flour is incorporated.
5. Roll the dough into a ball, cover with plastic wrap and chill for 1 hour.
6. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
7. Roll dough out on a well-floured surface to 1/8 inch thickness and cut out with a cookie cutter. Arrange on an ungreased cookie sheet. (Airbake sheets are best). Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown. Makes 60 1 1/2 to 2 inch cookies. Delicious!
Classic Butter Cookies
1 C. unsalted butter
2/3 C. sugar
bare pinch salt
2 1/2 C. all-purpose flour
Cream the butter until softened, then add sugar and salt. Fold in flour and mix to make a stiff dough. Knead gently on a lightly floured board to make the dough smooth.
You may otherwise place flour, salt and sugar in a food processor. Add butter in chunks and pulse to make a crumbly mixture. Turn out onto a lightly floured board and knead to make a stiff dough.
Wrap dough in plastic wrap or wax paper and chill in refrigerator for 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350 F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
Roll dough out to a thickness of 3/8 to 1/2 inch. Cut into rectangles or circles. Mark with the tines of a fork. Place cookies two inches apart on baking sheet and place in oven. Immediately reduce heat to 325 F. Bake until lightly browned (25 to 35 minutes). Reduce heat if cookies are browning too quickly.
Cool cookies on a rack.
You may also pat dough out into an 8 or 9 inch cake pan. Mark with fork tines and score into 10 to 12 wedges. Bake until lightly browned on edges.
Variations on the Classic Butter Cookie Dough
Cappuccino
Knead in about 1 T. of freeze-dried coffee into the dough.
Brown sugar
Replace white sugar with 3/4 C. brown sugar (light or dark).
Cashews
Add 1/3 C. toasted, ground cashews with flour.
Chocolate dip
Melt 4 oz. of semi-sweet chocolate. Dip cookies half into partially cooled chocolate. Allow to set.
Spice
Add 1 t. mixed pastry spice, apple pie spice, or 1/2 t. cinnamon and a 1/8 t. cloves, pinch ginger and allspice.
Linzertorte
Add spices as directed above and 1/3 cup ground hazelnuts. Add one teaspoon vanilla (when creaming butter). Roll thinly and bake half of cookies with a hole cut out. Spread raspberry jam on bottom halves and top with a cut out. Dust with confectioner's sugar.
Chocolate chip
Knead in 1/2 C. miniature chocolate chips into dough.