Butter Cookie Recipe – Using 3 Ingredients

Butter Cookie or Butter Biscuit are unleavened cookies consisting of butter, flour, and sugar. Who doesn’t like a cookie? This three-ingredient cookie is buttery, crunchy and crumbly. You cannot just stop with one. This is a basic recipe which can be prepared easily with available ingredients in the pantry. I bet you, it tastes delicious and fresh than what we buy in a bakery.

Butter cookies at their most basic have no flavoring, but they are often flavored with vanilla, chocolate, and coconut, and/or topped with sugar crystals. They also come in a variety of shapes such as circles, squares, ovals, rings, and pretzel-like forms, and with a variety of appearances, including marbled, checkered or plain. Using piping bags, twisted shapes can be made. The above said is the base for all the cookies. Just mix and match and give the desired shape according to your taste and requirements. Let us now see how to prepare this cookie.

Butter Cookie Recipe - Using 3 Ingredients

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Buttery and crunchy Butter Cookie.

Servings	Prep Time
12-15 Cookies	10 minutes

Cook Time

15 minutes

Servings Prep Time 12-15 Cookies 10 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Butter Cookie Recipe - Using 3 Ingredients Print Recipe Buttery and crunchy Butter Cookie. Servings Prep Time 12-15 Cookies 10 minutes Cook Time 15 minutes Servings Prep Time 12-15 Cookies 10 minutes Cook Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 Cup All purpose flour/Maida
• 1/4 Cup Powdered Sugar
• 1 Stick Unsalted Butter softened (100 gms approx)

Servings: Cookies

Instructions

1. Keep the ingredients ready. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Align a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or aluminum foil. In a large bowl, add butter and sugar.

   
2. Mix it thoroughly until fluffy using a hand mixer. Then add flour and continue to mix until mixture forms a soft dough.

   
3. It will be crumbly at first, but keep mixing with hand and it will form a dough. The consistency of the dough will be like roti dough.

   
4. Make 12 to 15 small equal balls out of dough, pat it and place on prepared baking sheet. Repeat for remaining dough. You can make any shapes. For design, I marked 'X' on each cookie using a knife. Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until cookies is pale golden brown on sides. Once done remove it and let it cool. Butter cookie is ready.

   

Recipe Notes

• Use only the specified amount of ingredients to get the perfect butter cookie.
• Store baked cookies in an airtight container for a week.
• Serve with tea/coffee/milk.
• You can use this as a base recipe for making any other cookies.

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Buttery and crunchy Butter Cookie is ready to relish along with a cup of tea/coffee/milk.