Basic butter cookies (Cut-Out Cookies, Stamped Cookies)【Recipe Video】. This recipe for basic butter cookies is so versatile. It can be scooped, rolled, sliced, pressed, or cut out with cookie cutters! Or you can roll the dough out and use cookie cutters to cut out shapes.
The best part being that you do not have to chill the dough first before rolling it out. This cut-out butter cookie recipe is simple and delicious. Cookie cutters make it easy to cut cookie dough into fun shapes, but they're Cut basic geometric shapes like squares, diamonds, and triangles by rolling your dough into a square. You can have Basic butter cookies (Cut-Out Cookies, Stamped Cookies)【Recipe Video】 using 7 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Basic butter cookies (Cut-Out Cookies, Stamped Cookies)【Recipe Video】
- Prepare 100 g (3.5 oz) of unsalted butter.
- Prepare 75 g of (8.5 Tbsp, 2.6 oz) powdered sugar.
- You need 1 of egg yolk.
- It's 165 g of (1 and 1/3 cups, 5.8 oz) cake flour.
- Prepare 30 g (1 oz) of almond flour.
- Prepare 5 drops of vanilla oil.
- You need of ※1cup=235cc(USA).
Cookie recipes that are designed to be cut out, such as sugar cookies, will not work with the drop cookie technique. My children love to decorate the cookie with frosting, sprinkles and some creativity. —Cindi Bauer, Marshfield, Wisconsin. I used peanut butter in place of the butter in my take on a traditional cutout cookie, which turned out super nutty and soft. This delicious sandwich cookie takes two buttery crisp butter cookies and fills them with raspberry jam.
Basic butter cookies (Cut-Out Cookies, Stamped Cookies)【Recipe Video】 step by step
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- Sift powdered sugar; set aside. Sift cake flour twice; set aside. Cream unsalted butter until soft..
- Add the powdered sugar in 3 parts. Mix each time until combined. Mix it with a hand mixer on low speed until it becomes white and fluffy..
- Scrape the batter on the inner side of the bowl and mix it..
- Add egg yolk. Mix it with a hand mixer on low speed until combined. Scrape the batter on the inner side of the bowl and mix it..
- Take the batter adhering to the hand mixer and place it in the bowl. Add vanilla oil and mix it until combined..
- Add almond flour. Mix it until combined while crushing lumps..
- Add all the flour. Mix it while cutting it, scooping sometimes. Mix it until the large lumps form. It's okay the dough seems to be powdery at this stage..
- Take the dough out from the bowl. Press lightly to flatten, cut in half and stack one on top of the other..
- Repeat it until powderiness disappears or smooth. (about 12times) When it becomes smooth, the dough won't stick to your hand..
- Shape it square and cut in half. Wrap each with plastic wrap. You can bake cookies for one baking tray with half of the dough. Let it sit in a fridge overnight..
- Next day, take the dough out of the fridge, leave it for 15-20 mins. Press it to soften. Roll it out into 5mm (0.2'') thick while coating it lightly with bread flour..
- Cut it with cookie cutters and press cookie stamp onto it. Take off each cookie gently not to lose it's shape and put them on a tray. It's easy to take off if you touch it through plastic wrap..
- Re-roll the dough scraps and cut again. Place the cookies in the freezer for 1 hour to keep the trace of the stamp..
- Preheat an oven to 190℃ / 374 F. Take the cookies out from the freezer and put them on a baking tray. Bake it at 170℃ / 338 F for 15-17 mins. (cookie size 4.5 cm / 1.8 inch→Bake for 15mins, cookie size 6 cm / 2.4 inch→Bake for 16-17mins).
- Cool them down well. Freshly baked cookies are soft but become crisp when cooled. If you put them in a closed container, they will keep crispy texture for about 3 days..
Use a smaller cookie cutter to cut out the centers of half of the cookies. Lightly brush the tops of the whole cookies with the beaten egg and then gently press the cookies. Gradually beat in flour and salt until well blended. These are a nice change from the traditional butter sugar cookie. Peanut Butter Lovers will enjoy these.