Amish Butter Cookies
Category: Amish Cookies | Cuisine: Amish Food
Amish Butter Cookies
These soft, butter, and melt-in-your-mouth Amish Butter Cookies are household and holiday essentials. Made with easy-to-find pantry items, this Amish Butter Cookie recipe is perfect for people looking for delicious shortbread-like cookies that can be baked in 10 minutes.
Recipe by Amish Baskets
Prep
10 min
Total
10 min
Servings
4
Ingredients
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 350°. In a mixing bowl mix butter, sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla.
- 2
Add dry ingredients. You should be able to form a ball of dough.
- 3
Shape dough into 1-inch balls and place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
- 4
Flatten balls to 1/4-inch thick with the bottom of the glass dipped in sugar. Bake 10-12 minutes at 350° or until edges are lightly browned.
- 5
Bake for 10-12 minutes at 350° or until edges are lightly browned. Let cool.
Amish Butter Cookies are simple shortbread sugar cookies that can be made effortlessly. Make these cookies with easy-to-find pantry ingredients like butter, sugar, and egg yolks.
These old-fashioned cookies are straight from Grandma's kitchen and are the perfect recipe to add to your baking repertoire. Just one more!
The best thing about these soft butter cookies is their simplicity, however, they are anything but boring. Try dressing up these buttery crispy cookies with colorful icing or changing up the flavoring.
If you like these kinds of cookies, we also recommend trying Amish Sugar Cookies and Amish Snickerdoodle Cookies. And for peanut butter lovers, we suggest trying Amish Peanut Butter Cookies.
How to make soft Amish Butter Cookies?
The secret to making soft and chewy Amish Butter Cookies is to ensure that baking time stays within 10-12 minutes. Let cookies cool properly and you will have the most amazing soft Amish Chocolate Chip Cookies.
What are other variations of Amish Butter Cookies?
Try using different types of sugar, such as brown sugar, raw can sugar, or powdered sugar. These cookies would also be great with a dash of cinnamon and lemon.
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