Butter Cookies are 1 of those classic Christmas cookies that everyone loves. This homemade version is far improve than what you’ll detect in the tins at the store during the holidays together with this add-on of decadent chocolate takes them to a whole novel level of delicious!
Butter Cookies
I beloved these cookies because they continue good longer than most cookies, they’re perfect for gifting together with they’re such a pretty cookie.
They have a rich buttery flavor together with a satisfying crisp tender texture, and anytime a chocolate dip is involved no i can turn them away.
I made these 2 ways, the traditional season amongst vanilla extract then for a funfetti flavor (the white chocolate version with rainbow sprinkles) I added almond extract.
You tin can’t get wrong which ever road you become, fifty-fifty if you make up one's mind to skip the chocolate y'all’ll all the same accept a perfectly delicious homemade cookie!
Ingredients You’ll Need for This Recipe
- Unsalted butter
- Granulated saccharide
- Salt
- Egg yolks
- All-purpose flour
- Milk
- Vanilla extract (and almond extract for funfetti flavour)
How to Make Butter Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In the bowl of an electrical stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment cream together butter, sugar together with salt until combined.
- Mix in egg yolks and vanilla.
- Add flour and mix until crumbly then add inward milk and proceed to mix patch adding in a trivial more than milk if needed for a pipe-able consistency.
- Transfer to a sixteen-inch piping pocketbook fitted amongst a large open up star tip (I like the Ateco 826 or 827 here).
- Pipe dough into rounds onto 2 ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake i canvas at a time inwards preheated oven until gilded brown on bottom, virtually 12 – xv minutes.
- Let cool on baking sheet v minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store inward an airtight container.
- If you’d like to dip in chocolate or white chocolate, melt 10 oz chopped chocolate, chocolate melts (I similar Ghirardelli), or white chocolate melts inward a microwave prophylactic bowl on l% ability in twenty second intervals until melted as well as shine.
- Dip one-half of cookies into chocolate let excess go off (piece as well brushing close to off bottom across bowl) and then transfer to a canvass of parchment paper. Immediately add together sprinkles so permit ready.
Do I Have to Pipe them Out Into Rounds?
You could as well role this same recipe too brand slice too bake cookies. If doing so cast dough into 2 logs (wrap in wax paper) too chill until fairly firm, then slice into fairly sparse disks as well as bake.
Can I Freeze These Cookies?
These cookies should freeze good for a calendar month (or even more than). If kept at room temperature they should keep for about 1 week.
More Christmas Cookie Recipes You’ll Love!
- Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies
- Peanut Butter Blossoms
- Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
- Lofthouse Style Snowman Sugar Cookies
- Brown Sugar Pecan Cookies
Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- i cup (226g) unsalted butter, softened
- 2/3 loving cup (140g) granulated carbohydrate
- one/iv tsp common salt
- ii big egg yolks*
- 1 1/two tsp vanilla extract**
- 2 cups (283g) all-use flour (scoop as well as degree to measure out)
- two - iv tsp milk
- Chocolate or candy melts, optional (run across notes)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted alongside the paddle attachment cream together butter, carbohydrate in addition to salt until combined.
- Mix in egg yolks in addition to vanilla.
- Add flour together with mix until crumbly so add together in two tsp milk, if needed add together in another ane - two tsp milk for a more pipage-able consistency - add together every bit little as possible for less spreading though.
- Transfer to a 16-inch piping handbag fitted with a really big open star tip (I similar the Ateco 826 or 827 here, smaller tips won't function for piping this thick batter don't effort it).
- Pipe dough into rounds onto 2 ungreased baking sheets (if you commonly have issues amongst cookies spreading chill them for thirty minutes on baking sail earlier baking).
- Bake i canvas at a fourth dimension inward preheated oven until gold brown on bottom, almost 12 - 16 minutes.
- Let cool on baking sheet five minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store inwards an airtight container.
Notes
- *Some have mentioned using room temperature egg yolks makes dough easier to pipage.
- **For a funfetti flavor (which is dipped inward white chocolate together with covered amongst sprinkles) add one/two tsp almond extract inwards addition to the vanilla extract.
- If yous'd similar to dip inward chocolate or white chocolate, melt x oz chopped chocolate, chocolate melts (I like Ghirardelli), or white chocolate melts inwards a microwave prophylactic bowl on fifty% ability inward xx instant intervals until melted as well as smoothen.
- Dip half of cookies into chocolate let excess work off (spell also brushing about off bottom across bowl) and then transfer to a sail of parchment paper. Immediately add together sprinkles if using and then permit set.
- Nutrition gauge does not include chocolate coating.
Amount Per Serving
Calories 138
Calories from Fat 72
% Daily Value*