Perfect Butter Cookies
Tender buttery cookies!
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups butter, cold
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 4 yolks, hard boiled
- 3 cups flour
- 1 egg
- fleur de sel garnish
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl fitted with a paddle attachment, combine butter, sugar, and salt.
- Once creamed, add egg. Scrape down sides.
- Pass hard boiled yolks through a fine mesh sieve, then add to the batter. Add flour last, little by little.
- Do no overmix- once flour is combined, turn mixer off and scoop out dough.
- Place dough between two pieces of parchment paper and press down to form a disk.
- Freeze dough for 1 hour.
- Remove dough from freezer, preheat oven to 350 degrees F
- Between the parchment, roll dough to ½ “ thickness. Use a 2 ½ “ round cookie cutter to punch out as many cookies as you can. You may roll and reuse dough until there is none left.
- Place dough 1” apart from eachother on a cookie tray fitted with parchment.
- Sprinkle a little fleur de sel on top of each cookie.
- Freeze for 10 minutes on cookie tray, then bake for 10 minutes.Remove from oven, cool to room temp and enjoy!!