Susan Branch's Butter Cookies - the Best (Really)
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
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6-8 dozen
- Serves:
- 20
ingredients
- 2 cups unsalted butter, softened (Kerry Irish Gold)
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 4 egg yolks
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 4 1⁄2 cups unbleached flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
directions
- Preheat the oven to 350°.
- With an electric mixer (even the hand-held kind), cream together the butter and the sugar.
- Add egg yolks and vanilla and mix well.
- Sift flour and salt together, shaking back and forth in a fine sieve.
- Beat into the butter mixture until well-mixed.
- When ready to bake, use an ungreased cookie sheet and place the cookies 1 inch apart.
- Bake for about 10 minutes and DO NOT BROWN THEM.
- Remove the cookies from the cookie sheet while still warm and cool on sheets of waxed paper.
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Decorate if you like:
- Shape dough into a roll the width of a cookie.
- Wrap in waved paper and chill.
- Before baking, roll in chocolate shots.
- Slice 1/2 inch thick and bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 350° for 10 minutes. Do Not Brown.
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Reviews
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Oh boy are these good!!! I made a half recipe and formed the dough into a log to cut and bake the next day. I cut them 1/2 inch thick and baked for about 14 minutes. They were very fragile right out of the oven so I let them cool completely on the cookie sheet which worked out very well. I also used the Kerry Irish Gold butter and these cookies are so good I won't use anything else for fear of ruining them! Thank you for sharing this incredible recipe.
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