Description
Delicious and easy to make butter cookies that are perfect for any occasion.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 ½ cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
- 1/8 teaspoon salt (optional, but recommended)
- ¾ cup unsalted butter (cut into cubes and softened—a bit greasy and very easy to press your finger into)
- 6 tablespoons sugar
Instructions
- First, ensure that your butter is the right consistency. Important: It should be very soft, warmer than room temperature and a bit greasy—a tiny bit melted but still solid. Then, cut into cubes.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Set aside a nonstick cookie sheet.
- Whisk together flour and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- Add cubed butter to a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on medium high until creamed about 1 minute, or until smooth and fluffy.
- Reduce the mixer speed to medium. Slowly add sugar to the mixer. Beat until fluffy and pale, and somewhat whipped like frosting, about 2 minutes. Scrape down the sides about halfway through to mix in any sugar left.
- Setting the mixer to low speed, add the flour mixture in thirds, until well incorporated, about 2 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl to incorporate all the flour. The dough will look whipped, not like traditional heavy, dry, and darker cookie dough.
- Once the flour is well mixed in, fold it altogether into a cohesive dough.
- Using a medium cookie scoop, scoop and drop balls of cookie dough onto the cookie sheet. Evenly space apart cookie dough to allow for a bit of spreading. Optionally, use a fork to flatten cookies about halfway for thinner, crispier cookies or leave as is for fluffier, thicker and rounder cookies.
- Bake 12-16 minutes, until golden at the very bottom of each cookie—the tops will still be pale. Mine took 14 minutes.
- Place cookie sheet onto a cooling rack to cool for 5 minutes. Using a heatproof spatula, gently transfer cookies directly onto the cooling rack to cool completely.
- Enjoy!
Notes
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- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 14 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2 cookies
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 3g
- Sodium: 50mg
- Fat: 8g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 18g
- Fiber: 0g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 30mg