Grandma Maes Norwegian Butter Cookies Recipe 455

Steps:

• 1.Preheat oven to 375 degrees 2.Cream butter until light and fluffy. 3.Add sugar and beat well. 4.Add eggs and vanilla and mix. 5.Add flour and salt and beat until combined. 6.Drop by small teaspoons onto baking sheet lined with parchment paper spacing about 2 inches apart. 7.Bake for 8 to 10 minutes and allow to cool on sheet before removing to a rack to finish cooling. 8.Note: I press the tops down slightly before baking and sprinkle with lemon sugar. Or you can leave and dust with powdered sugar once they are cool.

Steps:

• Cream together the sugar and butter, then add egg and vanilla mixing well. Sift together the flour, baking soda, nutmeg, and baking powder. Then combine with the creamed mixture alternating with the buttermilk. Cover tightly and allow to rest overnight at room temp. Preheat oven to 475. On floured work surface and with floured hands take a T of the dough and roll into a thin roll. (Dough will be very sticky) Place roll on ungreased baking sheet in the form of a figure 8 or pretzel. Bake for approx. 5 minutes or until just brown on the bottoms. After removing from the oven, spread with cream, milk, or butter and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Then transfer to a wire baker's rack to finish cooling.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In large mixing bowl or electric mixer beat; butter, egg, vanilla, and sugar.
• Then add 2 1/2 cups of flour to mixture and mix until creamy.
• Roll out dough on flat surface until about 1/2 inch thick.
• Use cookie cutters of your choice to cut the dough.
• Place the dough on a greased cookie sheet, and bake for 8-10 minutes.
• After removing the cookies from the oven, let them cool.
• Frosting and sprinkles are opptional but recommended by Grandma herself!
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• Mix the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt together. Add the butter and rub in with your fingers until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Mix in all the icing sugar and the vanilla sugar, then add the whole egg and mix until just combined, but be careful not to overmix.
• Transfer the dough to a food bag and put in the fridge to chill for about 1 hr.
• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Roll the chilled dough into about 40 even balls (around 15g each). Arrange the dough balls over two baking sheets lined with baking parchment, leaving space between each for spreading. Using the back of a fork, press the balls down gently in the middle, so they spread to a diameter of about 3cm (they will spread more as they bake). If you prefer flat cookies, use the bottom of a glass.
• Brush the cookies with the beaten egg white and sprinkle over the pearl sugar or almonds. Bake for 10 mins, or until just cooked through (the cookies should not be fully browned, just lightly golden at the edges). Remove from the oven and transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar; add eggs and vanilla. In a small bowl, combine buttermilk and baking soda. Stir in half the buttermilk mixture. Combine flour, nutmeg, salt and baking powder. Stir in dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk mixture. Dough will be tender. With a rolling pin, roll dough to 1/2-inch thick, using generous amounts of flour. Cut out cookies with a round cookie cutter. Bake on a greased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes (I baked mine 12 minutes and they were super soft) at 350 degrees. Do Not Overbake. The cookies should be soft. Cool completely and spread with pink icing.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350.
• 2. In large bowl(use my large 6qrt casserole bowl), cream butter & sugar until light and fluffy.
• 3. Add eggs & vanilla; blend together.
• 4. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, & salt. Then add to butter mixture.
• 5. Knead/mix (inside bowl) thoroughly-(at this point I have to use my hands).
• 6. Load dough into cookies press and press into desired shapes onto non-greased cookies sheets. Decorate with colored sugars as desired.
• 7. Bake 6 to 8 minutes until edges are light brown-DO NOT OVER BAKE.
• 8. HINT: If dough stays too sticky, add a little more Wondra flour and knead into dough. Also, dampen paper towel and cover dough in-between pressing cookies onto sheets so dough will not dry out.