The Best Butter Cookies
There is nothing better than a warm and buttery, with a hint of vanilla, scent in the house while baking a fresh batch of super soft and crumbly cookies. Those delicious treats are super easy to make and full of heart-warming flavours.
This kind of recipes is as old as the world we live on – almost. Think about it, simplest recipe. Flour, sugar, egg and butter. You know it will be good, especially if the proportion of butter is close to the proportion of flour. There is a key to super buttery delight.
Sometimes the simplest recipes are the best ones. There is nowhere we can go wrong and we definitely won’t be upset about the taste. To give them a bit of umpf we will add vanilla sugar and that’s it. Simple as building a flail (that’s what we say in Poland – I don’t know why we have a saying associated with a medieval weapon).
Happy baking! I believe once you try this recipe you will keep coming back to it.
The Best Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups Plain Flour
- 150 g Cold Butter
- 1 Egg Yolk
- 3 tbsp Icing Sugar
- 1 tbsp Sour Cream
- 16 g Vanilla Sugar with real vanilla bean
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
Instructions
- Place all the ingredient in a large bowl and start working on the pastry with your hand. You want to make sure all components will mix evenly. Continue until your pastry is nice and smooth. Cover with foil and place in the fridge for at least 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 180C. Roll the pastry with a rolling pin on a floured surface until is about 2-3 cm thick and using cookie cutters, cut out your chosen shapes.
- Place cookies on a baking tray laid with parchment paper, and place in the oven for 15 min or until golden brown.