Butter Cookies. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and white sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour and salt; stir into the sugar mixture.

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour and salt. In a medium bowl using a hand mixer, beat butter and sugar until light. It had to be buttery, a little crumbly (like shortbread), and not too sweet. You can have Butter Cookies using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Butter Cookies

It's 125 grams of Butter, softened.
You need 75 grams of Caster sugar.
You need 110 grams of plain flour.
Prepare 35 grams of corn flour.
You need 1/4 tsp of vanilla essence.

I think these are the Worlds Best Butter Cookie, courtesy of Chef Alice Medrich. There's no leavening, so the texture is closer to a shortbread cookie. The dough is like my spritz cookies, but with a little milk to make it pipe-able. Make sure it's properly softened to room temperature before beginning.

Butter Cookies step by step

Preheat oven at 150°C for 10 minutes..
Mix together plain flour, corn flour and sift it. Keep aside..
Beat butter, sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy..
Stir in combined sifted flours in two batches. Then make small balls and place about 3 cm apart on baking paper lined oven trays..
Bake about 15 minutes or until lightly golden brown..
Stand cookies on trays for 5 minutes before lifting onto wire rack to cool..
Store in airtight container..
NOTE - If the dough is too soft, refrigerate it about 5 minutes..

Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl. Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, So, so, so good. I made the ice box version because it's so quick. Used colored sugar to make them pretty. I really need to find an easy to use cookie press because I'd love to make the spritz version.