Butter Cookies | Cookstr.com

Updated November 21, 2017

This image courtesy of Joseph DeLeo

Editor’s Note: It only takes four ingredients to make this classic recipe for Butter Cookies. This easy cookie recipe combines butter, sugar, all-purpose flour, and rice flour. These simple butter cookies are the perfect addition to your holiday baking this year.

Serves8 dozen 2-inch rounds

Easy

Recipe CourseDessert, Snack

Dietary ConsiderationEgg-free, Halal, Kosher, Peanut Free, Soy Free, Tree Nut Free, Vegetarian

Five Ingredients or LessYes

Taste and TextureButtery, Sweet

Type of DishCookie, Dessert

Ingredients

1 pound unsalted butter—at room temperature
1 cup sugar
4½ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
½ cup rice flour

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Sift together the flours and set aside.
Combine the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer and mix with the paddle attachment until well incorporated but not whipped—two minutes on medium-low.
Switch to low speed and slowly add the flour mixture to the butter mixture. Mix just long enough for the dough to come together.
Roll out the dough on a lightly dusted wooden counter until one-quarter inch thick. Cut with a cookie cutter into small rounds and gently move to cookie sheets lined with parchment paper.
Bake until the edges are just brown—twenty-two to twenty-eight minutes.