Description
Butter cookies, known as Brysselkex, Sablés, and Danish biscuits, are unleavened cookies consisting of butter, flour, and sugar. They are often categorized as a “crisp cookie” due to their texture, caused in part because of the quantity of butter and sugar.
Place of origin: Denmark
Ingredients
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- 500g butter
- 1 cup of sugar (250ml cup size)
- 3 eggs
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 5 cups flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
Instructions
- Sift dry ingredients together.
- Beat butter and sugar for about 5 minutes.
- Add eggs one by one
- Add the oil and vanilla and mix well.
- Add butter mixture and knead gently to combine wet and dry.
- If the dough is still too soft add little flour.
- Pipe or shape as you wish.
- Bake 180C / 350F for 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown.
- 4 Flavors
- Use a different essence.
- Orange essence with some zest.
- Chocolate chips.
- Coffee
- Oats with some coconut and cherries, honey together
- You can really play around with them
- Jam filling
- Heat up about 3 tablespoons of apricot jam on low heat.
- Keep stirring until it starts boiling.
- Add a drop or 2 of red food coloring and continue to stir.
- Let it boil on very low heat for a minute.
- Add to baked biscuits whilst hot because it will set very quickly.
Notes
Prepared, tried, and tested Miriam Tar
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2
- Calories: 72
- Sugar: 2
- Sodium: 54
- Fat: 5
- Saturated Fat: 3
- Unsaturated Fat: 2
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 7
- Fiber: 0
- Protein: 1
- Cholesterol: 16
