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Danish butter cookies
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Danish butter cookies

5 from 4 votes
If you want a delicious melt in your mouth cookie look no further than these Danish butter cookies. They're a great biscuit for the festive season, but I'd be happy to eat them at any time of year.
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Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings: 15
Course: Snack
Cuisine: British, danish
Calories: 101
Ingredients Method Video Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 125 g (1/2 cup) butter
  • 40 g (1/2 cup) icing sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 125 g (1 cup) plain / all-purpse flour
  • 2 tbsp cornflour

Method
 

  1. Preheat your oven to 170C / 160C Fan / 340F and line 2 baking trays with baking paper.
Cream the butter and icing sugar together
  1. Weigh the butter and icing sugar out and add them to a large mixing bowl or freestanding mixer.
  2. Cream the butter and icing sugar togethe with the k paddle of your mixer, a hand held mixer or just some wooden spoons. Cream them, until they are light and fluffy.
Add the vanilla
  1. Add the vanilla extract and mix it in to your butter /icing sugar mixture.
Add the flour
  1. Measure the flour, and cornflour (or just cake flour if you're using it) and add it to your bowl.
  2. Mix the flour in until everything comes together in a soft ball of dough.
Pipe the butter cookies
  1. Add the butter biscuit dough to a piping bag with a star nozzle attached.
  2. Pipe circles of biscuit dough on to your prepared baking tray.
  3. Chill the cookies in the fridge for 20-30 minutes (to help them keep their shape).
Bake the butter cookies
  1. Bake the butter cookies in the oven for 10-12 minutes. They're ready when they have started to turn golden brown at the edges.

Video

Notes

If the biscuit dough is too hard, add a tbsp or so of milk to help it come together.