The traditional butter cookie recipe only uses flour, eggs and butter. Today, they have other varieties, such as filled and decorated. These cookies are a hit in Europe.
And today it takes over the Brazilian palate, we have adopted butter cookies as the favorites in some regions of Brazil, who doesn't like a freshly made cookie for afternoon tea?
In this article we will teach you how to make delicious butter cookies, let's go!
For our shortbread cookie recipe:
- 1 cup of wheat flour
- ½ cup (tea) butter
- ¼ cup (tea) sugar
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
How to prepare:
- Turn the oven on to medium temperature (180 degrees).
- Place the flour, sugar, butter and vanilla essence in a bowl and knead well with your hands until a uniform dough forms.
- Separate the dough into 3 portions.
- Roll each portion into a roll.
- Cut each roll into 1cm thick slices.
- Using the tines of a fork, lightly press each slice, forming a design.
- Grease a large baking sheet with butter and flour.
- Distribute the cookies on the baking sheet, leaving some space between them.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 25 minutes or until the cookies are lightly golden.
- Remove from the oven, wait for it to cool and serve.
