| How to Make Butter Cookies Jan 17th 2013, 20:00 Butter cookies––also known as Dutch biscuits––are crisp cookies made from only a few ingredients. At their most basic, the biscuits have no extra flavoring, although they are often flavored with vanilla and chocolate. You can find them in a variety of shapes and appearances, including marbled, checkered or plain. Butter cookies are similar to sugar cookies and they're often served around Christmas time in the Americas; in Europe and elsewhere, however, these biscuits are enjoyed all year round. Edit Ingredients Servings: about 4 dozen - 500 gm (4 cups) self rising (self raising) flour or 250 gm (2 cups) corn flour
- 3 or 4 eggs
- 250 gm (9 tbsp) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 250 gm (1 1/4 cups) caster sugar
- A pinch of salt
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350ºF. Grease a baking tray and sprinkle a little flour on it until it's completely covered.
- Stir the butter and salt together. Add to a medium bowl and stir with a wooden spoon until it's soft.
- Add the sugar to the mixture. Continue stirring until the mixture becomes smooth.
- Add the eggs to the mixture one at a time. Make sure each one is well blended before adding the next.
- Mix in the self rising flour. Use a spoon or a fork to mix, but only until a dough forms. Do not over mix.
- Sprinkle a bit flour on a table or clean counter. Take the dough out of the bowl and start kneading it for about 15 minutes, or until the dough is firm and smooth. If the dough is still a bit sticky, you can add an extra bit of flour.
- Roll the dough out. Aim to roll the dough to a 5mm-thickness.
- Press cookie cutters into the dough to form your cookies. Try to cut as many cookies as you can, using differently shaped cutters.
- Lay the cookies in rows on the baking tray. Leave sufficient room between each cookie––these cookies will expand in the oven, and if they're placed too close together, they'll stick to one another.
- Sprinkle some sugar over the cookies before placing them in the oven.
- Put the baking tray in the preheated oven. Bake for about 15 to 20 minutes.
- Remove from the oven once baked. Allow the finished cookies to cool on a rack until they reach room temperature.
- Serve when cooled. Or, store them in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.
- You can add extra flavor to the cookies by using vanilla sugar instead of regular sugar.
- Oven times vary. The times given in this recipe are just guidelines; keep an eye on the color of the cookies as they bake.
- Always have some extra flour handy, just in case your dough becomes too runny. That being said, have some extra water handy, in case your dough becomes too dry.
- If you don't have any self-rising flour, you can use the same amount of white flour and one small packet of instant yeast.
Edit Warnings - Use oven mitts when taking the cookies out of the oven.
- These cookies bake very quickly; you must keep an eye on the over to keep them from burning.
- The cookies break very easily, especially hot ones.
Edit Things You'll Need - 1 medium bowl
- Wooden spoon or fork
- Baking tray
- Rolling pin
- Cookie cutters or a drinking glass
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