Old-Fashioned Butter Cookies
This easy butter cookie recipe uses simple pantry ingredients and needs just 15 minutes of chilling before baking. No cookie cutters, rolling pins, or decorating skills required! Perfect for Christmas cookie exchanges, holiday trays, or sneaking a few with your afternoon coffee when nobody's looking.
Servings 36
Calories 94kcal
Ingredients
Instructions
- Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Add the egg and vanilla and beat until smooth.
- Mix the flour with baking powder and salt.
- Stir into butter mixture until completely mixed and a soft dough forms.
- Chill for 15 minutes if dough is too sticky to roll into balls.
- Shape dough into balls about the size of a walnut using a scant tablespoon.
- Roll in colored sugar and place on parchment covered cookie sheet.
- Press down gently with the bottom of a glass then press a pecan half into the center.
- Bake at 350°F for 12 minutes, or until the edges are set. Cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
Storage:
Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week. Freeze for up to 3 months baked or unbaked.
Tips:
- Dark brown sugar gives more of a praline flavor but produces a darker cookie.
- I used salted butter because vintage recipes almost always just used what was on hand - most often salted butter.
- You could press half a candied cherry into the center instead of a pecan half.
- Roll in plain granulated sugar for year 'round yumminess.
Nutrition
Calories: 94kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 15mg | Sodium: 66mg | Potassium: 32mg | Fiber: 0.3g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 126IU | Vitamin C: 0.02mg | Calcium: 13mg | Iron: 0.2mg
