Ghoraibi Butter Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• Beat butter until it is almost white. Add the sugar and beat another 2 minutes or so. Add in the flour. Stir completely. The dough will form. Now you can handle it with your hands. Mash the dough with your hands until it is well blended. You can refrigerate it for 10 or 15 minutes to make it more firm. Divide into equal parts and make little balls. Press each ball down with your thumb. You can also roll the dough between your fingers to make a long about 4-inch piece. Join the ends. Place on cookie sheet. Decorate with crush pistachios or with one single pistachio in the middle. Bake on 350° about 15 minutes. The cookies should still be very pale. Don't let them take on color. Let cool about 20-30 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
• Beat butter in mixing bowl, for 5 minutes, or until fluffy.
• Cream in sugars.
• Add almond extract.
• Slowly add in flour -- If you do not have a heavy duty stand mixer, add half of the flour with mixer, the other half with a spoon.
• Chill dough in the refrigerator for up to one hour.
• Roll out dough onto a floured surface, into a rope that is 1 1/2 - 2 inches thick.
• Cut diagonally into diamond shapes.
• Place on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Place one almond in the center of each cookie.
• Bake for 12 minutes. Remove and cool on cooling racks.