I love Christmas and these Christmas butter cookies remind me of my childhood. My mom made them with us and they just tasted so good. They look plain and you can decorate them, but I wanted to show what it was back home. Sometimes the simplest recipe can bring back beautiful memories and maybe you can continue that in your own life.

There is just a couple things you need to pay attention to while making this dough. First, the butter must be cold while making the dough and needs to rest at least 30 minutes. Second, do not overwork the dough! Third, resist the temptation to eat all the cookies in one setting. 🙂

Store your Christmas Butter Cookies in an airtight container for 2 to 3 weeks. Keep it in a cool location or even the fridge.

Christmas Butter Cookies Ingredients

Flour: Just used plain flour for the cookies. Sift your flour to avoid getting clumps in your dough.

Sugar: I used white sugar or you can even use powdered sugar for this recipe. I don’t recommend using brown sugar for this recipe, since it is too grainy.

Butter: Use unsalted cold butter for this. The butter has to be cold or else the cookies will loose their form while baking.

Egg: One is for the dough and the egg yolk is meant to be brushed over the cookies before cooking.

Christmas Butter Cookies

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Christmas is at the door and you need a quick recipe to make some simple cookies with your family. Do not fret, since this Christmas Butter Cookie recipe will help you with that.

Author: Jessica
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Rest: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes
Yield: 60 cookies 1x
Category: Baking
Method: Oven

Ingredients

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250 g flour
90 g white sugar
125 g cold butter
1 Egg
1 Egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/2 teaspoon salt

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Instructions

In a bowl add your flour, sugar and cubes of cold butter.
Crumble them together to incorporate the butter into the flour.
Add egg, vanilla essence and salt to it and knead the dough.
Knead the dough until if forms a dough to the point it doesn’t crumble. About 5 minutes. Do not over-knead it or else the cookies will taste tough.
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and let it rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F)
Flour your surface and roll out the dough to 3mm or 1/4″.
Cut out your dough with a variety of shapes and place your cookies on a tray lined with parchment paper.
Since these are a lot of cookies I suggest to put a full tray in the fridge to cool down, while working on the rest. I like to cool them down or else they loose their form.
Beat and egg yolk and brush it over each cookie as a finish.
Bake for 8-10 minutes.
Let them cool completely.
Decorate them with frosting or any sugar coat. I like them quite plain, but you do you. It is a fun activity for children to do.