Butter Cookies - Norma’s (Betty Crocker Cookbook, 1960’s??) Recipe
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Ingredients: 1 cup soft butter (or margarine)
½ cup sugar
1 egg
3 tsp. vanilla
Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy; beat in egg and vanilla until well
blended. (**if you plan to make a colored dough, such as for pinwheels, add food coloring at
this time).
Mix together and stir in to butter/sugar/egg/vanilla mixture:
3 cups sifted flour
½ tsp. baking powder
Cover dough with plastic wrap; chill for several hours.
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Directions:Divide dough into 1/3’s. Roll out each portion of dough ⅛ inch to ¼ inch thick (thicker is easier
to frost for cut out cookies) on floured board with covered and floured rolling pin OR roll out
between layers of waxed paper.
Cut into desired shapes; place shapes onto ungreased pan.
Bake at 425°F for 5-7 minutes (may need a minute or 2 longer for thicker cookies) or until
cookies are set and bottom edges just start to turn golden brown. Transfer cookies to sheets of
aluminum foil (this is so they stay flat; I found that cooling racks cause thinner cookies to be
more fragile because they’re not completely flat). Frost when cool
For pinwheels: Color dough deep red and deep green (I usually make 1 batch of each). Chill,
as directed. Roll out ⅓ of one color of dough between sheets of waxed paper, into rectangle
shape, until ⅛ inch thick. Roll out ⅓ of second color of dough in the same manner. Peel off
top layers of waxed paper from each color of dough. Place (flip) one color of dough onto other
color of dough; remove waxed paper from top. Roll dough into log shape, pressing gently
along length of log to remove any gaps between layers of dough, pulling waxed paper away as
you roll. Round ends of dough log. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill at least 1 hour.
When ready to bake, slice of ¼” from each end of dough so you start with pretty pinwheel
design (you can still bake the ends—they’re “test” cookies ☺). Slice off dough into ¼’ sections
and place on ungreased cookie sheet. Sprinkle with red sugar if green color is on outside edge
of pinwheel; sprinkle with green sugar if red color is on outside edge of pinwheel.
Bake at 425° for about 7 minutes or until cookies are set (it will be hard to determine if they’re
brown because of the deeper color). Cool on racks or on aluminum foil. |
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Number Of
Servings:6 dozen |
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Preparation
Time:30 minutes + Baking time |
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Notes: Delicious Christmas cookies!
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