Recipe For Cooking Butter Cookies

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Butter Cookies

Posted by kdipaolo at recipegoldmine.com May 15, 2001

1/2 C. butter
6 Tbsp. sugar
Dash salt
Scant 1 C. flour
1/2 tea. vanilla extract or flavoring
Additional sugar for coating hands

Cream together butter and sugar until fluffy. Add salt. Gradually add flour, blending it in to make a stiff, smooth dough. Stir in vanilla extract or flavoring.

Form dough into 8 balls; place balls far apart on unprepared cookie sheet. Place some sugar on a saucer. Press palm of hand into sugar, then use palm to flatten each ball of dough to a 3-in. circle, 1/4 in. thick.

Bake in a 350 degree F oven 12 to 15 min., or until lightly browned. Leave on cookie sheet 5 min., then loosen with spatula and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Makes approximately: 8 cookies.