Homemade Butter Cookies (with chocolate coating) | Recipe

Butter cookies are so good

I've always loved them but didn't eat them too often in my life as they are filled with butter and are probably the worst cookie to have in the house constantly. With the holidays around the corner, baking madness has hit our home and I'm starting to collect easy recipes as a basis for other ideas I have in mind. To make sure this basic recipe is good enough for the ideas I have for the Christmas baking period, I have to try them and (how horrible!) taste if they are any good!

I can't wait to decorate

For a few weeks, my baking stock has been filled with many cool eatable decorations for Halloween as well as Christmas. Next week, it's a holiday week for my daughter so I bet we will be having some fun in the kitchen. This recipe should be super simple, and it looks like my daughter could take the mixing part upon her as well, therefore today I'm doing a test round to see how they turn out.

Ingredients

You only need a few ingredients

• 1 egg
• 220 grams of butter (I use 82% butter)
• 250 grams of flour
• 2 teaspoons of vanilla aroma
• 100 grams of powdered sugar
• cooking chocolate
• a bit of butter
• water

Tools needed:

• piping bag with an opening as shown in the image below
• a whisk
• a bowl

The process

First, you need to soften the butter in the bowl by whisking it until it doesn't stick anymore.

Once that's the case, you can add all the powdered sugar to the butter and start whisking it again until it's a smooth mixture of butter and powdered sugar:

Now use a small bowl to whisk the egg before you add it to the mix.

Add two teaspoons of vanilla aroma to the mix before you start whisking again.

Whisk until it's a smooth mixture.

Take out the whisk and get a spoon to mix in the flour.

You will notice quite quickly that the texture gets from dry to smooth, now make sure it's all mixed thoroughly.

That's it, your cookie dough is done!

Baking the cookies

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celcius.

Fill the piping bag and make sure there's no air inside.

I still have to learn how to use the piping bag myself and found out that with this firm mixture, it's not the best idea to fill it up completely. The emptier the bag got, the easier I could pipe the cookies. So my tip, fill it up half and add the rest later. My cookies are all different, thanks to the struggle with the piping bag. It got real messy here!

Place some baking paper on your baking tray and start piping the cookies.

Once done, bake in the oven for 15 minutes.

Let them cool off before you add the chocolate coating.

What I did for the coating is: I took a bit of the cooking chocolate (not even half of it), melted it in my daughter's pan from her play kitchen. Together with a bit of butter and later water. Dip half of the cookie in the chocolate and add sprinkles before you let them cool off.

It worked fine, but I have to admit that I would prefer adding some powdered sugar next time to make the coating harder. It stayed a bit sticky this time, I placed the cookies in the fridge for an hour to harden the coating.

Butter Cookies for the win!