Receta Annie Hall's Butter Cookies
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Ingredientes
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Direcciones
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With an electric mixer (even the hand-held kind), cream together butter and sugar. Add in egg yolks and vanilla and mix well. Sift flour and salt together and beat into butter mix till well mixed. When ready to bake use an ungreased cookie sheet and place cookies 1 inch apart. Bake for about 10 min, but don't brown them. Remove cookies from cookie sheet while still hot and cold on sheets of waxed paper. Decorate, if desired.
- Makes 6 to 8 dozen. Taste fabulous!
- Shapes:Candy Canes: Divide 3 c. of dough in half. Add in 1 1/2 tsp. red food coloring to one half. Using about a Tbsp. of dough, roll a 4 inch strip of each color (no fatter than a pencil). Place the two colored rolls side-by-side and press lightly together. Gently twist like a rope and place on ungreased cookie sheet 1 inch apart. Curve the top like a candy cane and bake about 10 min; don't brown. You can sprinkle with crushed peppermint candy.
- Rolled Cookies: Shape dough into rolls with width of a cookie. Wrap in waxed paper and chill. Before baking, roll in chocolate shots. Slice 1/2 inch thick and bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 10 min; do no brown.
- Stars, Hearts, Circles and Jelly-Filled: Fill a pastry bag with unchilled dough and put through a 'star tip' (sizes 2 and 7 - 9). Squeeze onto cookie sheet into the shapes you like. For instance, make star, then fill baked cookie center with red jelly. Decorate these cookies with cinnamon hearts, mini chocolate morsels, color sugar, little silver balls, or possibly frosting from a tube. Bake them, same as others. Don't brown.
- Cookie Cutter Cookies: Refrigeratedough. Roll out onto lightly floured board to thickness of 1/2 inch. Cut with cookie cutters and bake as mentioned above.
- Decorate your own way.
- Plain Old Drop Cookies: Just drop unchilled dough by teaspoonful onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 350 degrees for 10 min. Do not brown.
- Remove from pans immediately.