Butter Cookies (The Best You Ever Had)
"I usually double all ingredients to make a double batch. This is a recipe from my mom that she started making about 70 years ago and they are ABSOLUTELY THE BEST butter cookies that anyone has ever tasted!"
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
1 Batch
ingredients
- 1⁄2 lb sweet butter (NO SUBSTITUTES)
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1⁄4 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon cold tap water
directions
- You must use sweet butter,and do not substitute with salted butter or margarine.
- Allow butter to sit out and soften by itself.
- Do not melt on the stove or in the microwave.
- Place the softened butter into a bowl.
- Add all of the ingredients, including the tablespoon of cold tap water, to the bowl containing the butter.
- With a large wooden spoon, hand mix all of the mixture.
- Do not use a dough machine nor a food processor, as the dough will not come out the same and the cookies will not taste the same.
- When your wrist begins to ache from mixing the dough, DO NOT add water.
- To mix it properly, your wrist and fingers will get tired.
- This recipe is not easy for a person with arthritis.
- You will need to use a Mirro Cookie Press (no other brand).
- When the dough is thoroughly mixed, fill the Mirro Cookie Press and twist until the dough goes onto the UNGREASED cookie sheet.
- When the dough comes out of the cookie press onto the cookie sheet, slightly back twist and lift the cookie press.
- After making several of one shape, change the shape to make several different shapes.
- After the cookie sheet or sheets are filled, decorate the cookies with different kinds of jimmies and cookie decorations.
- Bake in pre-heated 410 degree oven, checking frequently to make certain that the cookies DO NOT BEGIN TO BROWN!
- You may open the oven door to check on the cookies as often as you desire.
- The second they begin to get the slightest bit golden, remove from oven, and with a spatula or butter knife, remove from the cookie sheet and place onto plates to cool.
- You may stack them onto the plates, as they will not stick together.
- Just wipe the cookie sheet with paper towel, and you may use the same sheet, over and over for more cookies.
- ENJOY THE BEST BUTTER COOKIES YOU HAVE EVER HAD!
Questions & Replies
Got a question?
Share it with the community!
Reviews
-
These were very good cookies, and quite different from other butter cookies I've had. Yes, my hands were tired by the time I got the dough mixed. One question, where does the 1 T cold tap water come in?
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Alan Leonetti
Albuquerque, New Mexico
I was born in 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in this GREAT United States of America. I have since resided in Baltimore Maryland, Atlanta Georgia, Orlando Florida, Fort Lauderdale Florida, Los Angeles California, Selma Oregon, and now in Albuquerque New Mexico. I have enjoyed not only eating, but cooking all my life.
