Butter cookies are delicious and melt-in-your-mouth treats that have become a classic of Italian patisserie, but they are also appreciated abroad and loved by both adults and children. They can be made and filled in various ways using just one dough.
Butter cookies, along with other delicious sweets like creamy chocolate cookies, or soft lemon cookies, are some of the most appreciated desserts for their delicate butter flavor and simplicity in making them. The dough is very versatile, suitable for any occasion like Christmas, Easter, or a birthday party, or to enjoy a good tea with friends. They can also be delightful gifts if packaged in a beautiful gift box with a nice bow.
To achieve fragrant and melt-in-your-mouth cookies, quality ingredients must be used. This is a basic recipe, which you can personalize as you wish. To have cocoa shortcrust, just replace a small part of the flour with cocoa. Below, I provide basic recipes for both cocoa and classic versions. Let’s see what we need to make butter cookies with one recipe.
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- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very economical
- Rest time: 1 Hour
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 30Pieces
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients
Christmas butter cookies with just one recipe can be prepared in many variants and filled in various ways, even cooked in an air fryer
- 3 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/3 cups butter (soft)
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- flavoring (to taste)
Tools
YOU WILL NEED VERY FEW ITEMS TO MAKE THE COOKIES
- Cutters for cookies
Steps
LET’S MAKE THE COOKIES
In a bowl, whip the soft butter with powdered sugar, add the egg, flavoring, milk, and finally the sifted flour. Form a nice dough ball and let it rest in the fridge for an hour. After resting, start forming the cookies with the help of cutters and then decorate them as you like. I used silver balls and sugar decorations.
Here I used a round cutter, silver sugar balls, pomegranate seeds, and mint leaves. Then I made a glaze with powdered sugar and water. Finally, I dusted with powdered sugar.
Here I used sugar sprinkles and dusted with powdered sugar
Here I made a glaze with powdered sugar and water and decorated with silver sugar balls and sugar stars
SUGAR DECORATIONS CAN BE FOUND IN SUPERMARKETS. THE COOKIES KEEP FOR SEVERAL DAYS, ESPECIALLY IF STORED IN A TIN BOX.
SUGAR DECORATIONS CAN BE FOUND IN SUPERMARKETS. THE COOKIES KEEP FOR SEVERAL DAYS, ESPECIALLY IF STORED IN A TIN BOX.
