Butter cookies like Grandma's: The best recipe for juicy cookie cutters

Today I'm sharing with you my favorite recipe for juicy butter cookies that are easy to cut out and keep their shape in the oven. The shortcrust pastry is wonderfully tender and can still be rolled out easily without tearing easily.

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Butter cookies to cut out: Simple basic recipe

Ingredients:

• 500 g 405 flour
• 200g sugar
• pinch of salt
• 300 g kalte Butter
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 No
• Flour for sprinkling the countertop

Preparation:

1. Place the flour in a large bowl, spread the sugar and salt over it and make a well in it. Cut the cold butter into cubes and distribute the butter cubes on the edge of the well. Separate two eggs and put the yolks into the well along with the whole egg. Add the vanilla extract. Then knead quickly with your hands into an even portion.

2. Form the dough into a ball and wrap it in cling film. Let cool in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Open the oven175 degrees circulating airPreheat and line baking sheets with baking paper. The dough is enough for about three sheets of cookies.

3. Sprinkle flour on the work surface, sprinkle a rolling pin with flour and roll out the dough to a thickness of approx. 5 mm. Cut out the dough into cookies using the cookie cutters and place them on the trays with a little space between them.

4. Place the cookies in the preheated oven on the middle shelf10-12 minutesBake until very lightly golden. Then take them out, let them cool briefly and decorate them as you like.

Decorating cookie cutters: 3 great ideas

The great thing about cookie cutters is that you can decorate them very creatively and in many different ways. Here are three quick ideas for which you don't need a steady hand:

#1 Paint cookie cutters

This decoration idea is perfect if you bake cookies with children. Instead of making a mess with icing, simply paint the cookies with food coloring pens. These pens look like normal felt-tip pens, you can paint like them, but their color is edible. You can use this to paint the finished, cooled cookies. Simply brilliant!

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#2 Stamp ornaments on cookies (before baking)

Would you like to cut out larger cookies instead of smaller cookies? Then you can decorate them with ornaments using a simple trick. For this you need one or more glasses with a relief on the bottom. For example, certain mustard jars are suitable. Simply cut out the cookies of a suitable size and press the glass base onto them.

#3 Decorate cookies with icing and wow sprinkles

If you want to attract a little more attention with your cookies, you should decorate them with icing and wow sprinkles. For homemade icing, simply mix 200 g of powdered sugar with 2-3 tablespoons of water or lemon juice until smooth.

Dip the cookies into the icing or use a small spoon to spread the icing over the cookies and then sprinkle with sprinkles. You can find unusual sprinkles, for examplehere on Amazon*.

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