Butter Cookies

I started my baking journey with butter cookies in July 2009. That was a harder dough that can be shaped with roller and hand. This round, I'm trying a different recipe with the softer dough so that I can play around with my pastry decorating tool. After I completed this huge batch of cookies, I regret that i didn't invest a better tool. The cheap tool that I got was not user friendly at all, and I had a hard time squeezing the dough from the small container. Oh, tiring job!

Anyway, mission accomplished. I managed to share the cookies with some friends over the weekend.

Butter Cookies 

Ingredients:

250g salted butter at room temp

320g plain flour

140g Castor sugar

2 eggs

1tsp Vanilla essence

Steps:

1. Beat butter and sugar till smooth and fluffy.

2. Add egg and vanilla essence and mix well.

3. Combine the batter with sifted flour to form a soft dough.

4. Fridge the dough for 15 minutes.

5. Put dough into the pastry decorating container with a star tip.

6. Squeeze and shape the dough on a lined baking tray.

7. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 deg C for 15 minutes or until golden yellow.

8. Cool before storing in a airtight container.