Cookie Press Cookies

Submitted by CobaltBlueMixer

"Rich, buttery and made with lots of vanilla, these cookies are simple to make. Use a cookie press to press the cookies directly onto the baking sheet."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 24-36 cookies

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups unsalted butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 large egg yolks
• 3 3⁄4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
• colored sanding sugar

directions

1. Heat oven to 350°F In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, flour, salt, and vanilla. Mix thoroughly.
2. Fill a cookie press with the dough, and turn out cookies 1 to 2 inches apart onto an unbuttered baking sheet. Sprinkle cookies with colored sanding sugars.
3. Bake until the cookies are lightly browned, 7 to 10 minutes. To ensure even baking, rotate sheet halfway through the baking process. Transfer to a wire rack, and let cool.

Reviews

[SoCalMomof4]

NOTE: this is an exact duplicate of Martha Stewart's recipe, even down to the description. See here: http://www.marthastewart.com/318844/cookie-press-cookies

 

[Baker Girl 8]

Easy to make but don't double if you have a Kitchen Aid mixer, mine couldn't handle it, it made alot more than the recipe said it would. Insted of vanilla I used a TBS of peppermint extract and the taste was great! Will def. make again!

 

[imayoung2]

Easy to make and the kids loved decorating them. I just didn't care for the flavor. It was kind of bland to me. Might try adding extracts like the poster below did. Thanks for sharing, my kids and I enjoyed decorating them.

 

[3Maria5]

Great recipe! I bought a cookie press a few weeks ago and realised that the "manual/recipe booklet included" was missing! Finding this recipe really made my day. I halved it and used golden caster sugar and managed to create 6 dozens of pretty, dainty, AND yummy butter cookies! Thanks so much for posting!

 

[FoodExplorer]

This was so easy to prepare and cook--I made the dough just as instructed, but I divided the dough into different sections and added different flavored extracts to each one. I used anise, lemon and almond extracts, and they came out perfectly. Thanks so much for a great recipe!