Danish butter cookies
Celebrate the holidays with these crispy and delicious homemade butter cookies.
Total Steps
5
Ingredients
11
Tools Needed
1
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- 500 grams flour
- 2 packets baking powder
- 350 grams butter, cold
- 250 grams sugar
- 1 vanilla sugar
- A pinch salt
- 3 eggs
- 1 lemon zest, grated
- 3-4 tablespoons sugar for sprinkling
- 3-4 tablespoons water
- 3-4 tablespoons sugar for sprinkling
Instructions
Step 1
Sift flour with baking powder, add chopped butter, sugar, vanilla sugar, pinch of salt, eggs and grated lemon peel. Mix to combine and knead into the dough.
Step 2
Wrap the dough with plastic wrap and let it sit for 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
Step 3
On a working desktop or a silicone mat sprinkled with sugar roll out with a rolling pin 5 mm thick dough. Brush with water and sprinkle with sugar. With a palm of your hand lightly press sugar into the dough. Cut into desired shapes with a cookie cutter.
Step 4
Place cookies onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking sheet. Bake 10 - 12 minutes at 180 ° C. They are done when the ends become slightly golden.
Step 5
Cool and put in a tightly closed metal container. They will keep for several weeks.