Day 8 of my 12 Days of Christmas Baking compilation.
My guy is Dutch so around the holidays, I try to add a few traditional Dutch recipes into my lineup. These cookies are melt-in-your-mouth yet so ridiculously easy to make.
They remind me a bit of those Danish cookies that come in a blue metallic tin around the holidays – know the ones I mean?
Ingredients:
- 3 sticks (1 ½ cups) butter, softened
- 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar plus ½ cup, divided
- 1 large egg
- 1 ½ tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- ½ tsp. salt
Directions:
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and the 1 1/3 cups of sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add the egg and the vanilla then beat for 30 seconds.
- In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda and salt.
- Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and beat to combine. Chill the dough for 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Using a tablespoon, scoop dough, roll into a small ball then place on ungreased cookie sheets. Repeat with the rest of the dough.
- Flour the bottom of a drinking glass then lightly flatten each dough ball.
- Sprinkle each cookie with the remaining ½ cup of sugar.
- Bake the cookies between 12-15 minutes until light golden brown around edges. Allow to cool for 5 minutes on the cookie sheets then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Yields 5 dozen cookies.
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