Greek Butter Cookies

Greek Butter Cookies.

I love butter cookies. A butter cookie to me is basically a sugar cookie. The Greek Butter Cookie recipe below is a popular recipe to make at Christmas time. You can dust the top with powdered sugar or colored sprinkles. You can also shape these any way you want, some people make a crescent moon shape or an S shape. I kept it simple and made them into balls using a small cookie scoop.

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The cookies turn out soft in the middle & the powdered sugar on top helps to add some extra sweetness to them. The recipe below calls for adding vanilla but you could also add almond extract or a little of both. Vanilla extract is my favorite!

Recipe makes about 36 cookies.

Greek Butter Cookies

 

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Recipe type: Dessert

Serves: 36

Ingredients

• 1 cup salted butter, softened
• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• powdered sugar for dusting

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400 F. degrees.
2. In a medium bowl, cream butter, sugar and egg together until smooth. Stir in vanilla.
3. Mix in flour until dough forms.
4. Roll dough into 1" balls balls, logs or 'S' shapes and place on ungreased cookie sheet 2" apart.
5. Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until lightly browned and firm.
6. Allow cookies to cool then dust with powdered sugar.

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