Bachelor Buttons (Cookies)
"Recipe featured on The Daily Meal -- All Things Food and Drink ---------- In 1820, Missouri enacted legislation to tax bachelors between 21 and 50 years of age $1 per year for being unmarried. Bake these cookies that look like buttons -- or are they flowers? Either way, they’re easy, and cute enough to serve at a party."
photo by Baby Kato
- Ready In:
- 17mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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16
ingredients
- 1 cup butter (salted or unsalted, your choice, at room temperature)
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1⁄4 cup fruit preserves (flavors of your choice)
directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and place a rack in the center.
- Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, or in a large mixing bowl, using a handheld electric mixer, beat the butter, salt, and powdered’ sugar on medium speed until creamy.
- Reduce the mixer speed slightly and beat in the egg and vanilla.
- By hand or using the lowest speed of the mixer, stir in the flour.
- Shape the dough into ¾-inch balls and arrange 2 ½ inches apart on the prepared baking sheet. Use your finger to make an indentation in the center of each dough ball, then fill with preserves.
- Bake 1 sheet at a time for 10-12 minutes, or until the cookies are lightly browned around the edges. Let cool on the baking sheets for about 3 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Reviews
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These cookies came together nicely and quickly. It is sort of like a sugar cookie with an extra little something in the middle. I will be making these again. -
Just as I remember Bachelor Buttons to taste. Flavorful cookie and the preserves give it that extra sweetness. Made for Photo Tag Game -
These flavorful cookies were the bomb KUW. We enjoyed them very much. They looked very pretty on the cookie platters that I made for family and friends. The cookies were quick and easy to make with wonderful results. They tasted delicious and had a nice texture. I used triple berry jam, apricot jam, blackcurrant jam, green plum jelly and guava jelly. They all tasted great in this recipe. Thank you for sharing a recipe that I will make again. made for Sweet December 2014. -
Followed directions precisely. Recipe made 2 dz med. sized cookies. Thumbed half w/raspberry & the other w/an orange fig spread. As much as I LOVE raspberry - the orange fig is better. As much as I can say I like this recipe I believe I prefer thumbprint cookie recipes better - I know they're very similar. Pretty nice presentation too.
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My aunty always called these "promises"...she promised to make better ones next time. As far as I am concerned , these are the best! Tasty! Lotus.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
KerfuffleUponWincle
Marietta, Georgia
