Biscuits and cookies are one those favourite snack items of your kids. And they would be munching on a couple or more every now and then when those little hunger pangs keep knocking. As a concerned mom, who is not very pleased on the store bought ones and is always determined on feeding healthy stuff for my kids, I make and bake cookies at home. I think there are many moms (dads too) out there who think like I do too.....and have got into baking cookies & biscuits for this same reason.
Butter cookies (or butter biscuits), known as Brysslkex, Sablés, and Danish biscuits, are unleavened cookies consisting of butter, flour, and sugar. They are often categorized as a "crisp cookie" due to their texture, caused in part because of the quantity of butter and sugar. It is generally necessary to chill the dough to enable proper manipulation and handling. Butter cookies at their most basic have no flavoring, but they are often flavored with vanilla, chocolate, and coconut, and/or topped with sugar crystals. They also come in a variety of shapes such as circles, squares, ovals, rings and pretzel-like forms.
Christmas time is another reason in my home to bake cookies. They are great for serving to your guests at parties too. Our little man loves these cookies alot..... especially star shaped ones.
So here's a simple recipe that can be used for any occasion.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
2 Eggs
1 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
3 1/2 cups Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Salt
Cream the butter and sugar together. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix well. In a separate bowl, mix together your dry ingredients. Add those slowly to the egg mixture and mix well until dough forms up. Don’t over beat!
Fill your piping bag with this soft dough and pipe out wreaths or any design of your choice onto a baking tray. This is for those who are pretty good at handling the piping bag and the piping exercise.
Else, you could do what I do. Turn the dough out onto plastic wrap and chill for a while. This step is crucial because with so much butter in the cookies, they are going to fall apart if too soft. The hazards of baking with butter I guess.
Flour a board or counter top well and roll out your cookies. Use a cookie cutter and cut out the cookies and place them on a baking tray, that's lined with butter paper. Pop this into the fridge, so that it firms up a bit. I used star shaped cutters....coz it was Christmas time and Miss J suggested we do stars.
Bake at 180°C for 8-10 minutes. Keep an eye on them because you want them to just start getting golden around the edges, but not completely brown. I let them sit for a minute or two to set up on the hot tray before transferring them to a rack to cool.
Decorate however you want!!
You can use a simple frosting recipe by putting a heap ton of powdered sugar in the mixer and then adding milk until the frosting is the consistency you desire....you could divide this mixture into lots and add different colours and frost your cookies in different colours & designs. Or you could glaze with your favourite chocolate ganache, for the chocolate lovers. Or just have it as it is.....these butter cookies would melt in your mouth.
Give it a try!!!
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