Butter Cookies

This simple butter cookies recipe can be used in a cookie press, made as a drop cookie, or shaped into a roll and sliced. There is no special cookie recipe for a cookie press — any stiff butter type of cookie can be used! Just be sure to chill it thoroughly so it keeps its shape while baking.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 10 mins
• Total Time: 25 mins
• Calories: 103 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 egg
• 1 cup white sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 ⅔ cups all-purpose flour

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Beat butter and sugar together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, then stir in the vanilla. Combine flour and salt in a separate bowl; add to butter mixture and mix to form a dough. Cover dough with plastic wrap and chill for at least one hour.

Step 2

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Chill two cookie sheets.

Step 3

Transfer chilled dough to a cookie press; press out onto chilled cookie sheets.

Step 4

Bake in the preheated oven until lightly golden at the edges, about 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire racks to cool.