French Butter Cookies
"Everything a butter cookie should be and cute as a button. Before baking, four holes are made in these cookies so they look like big buttons. Unlike most other recipes this one uses brown sugar and a fancy edge made of turbinado sugar. They melt in your mouth."
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
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60 cookies
ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2⁄3 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1⁄2 cups sifted flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup turbinado sugar (unrefined) or 1/2 cup granulated sugar
directions
- Cream butter and brown sugar with electric mixer equipped with paddle attachment, if you have one.
- Beat on high speed until light and fluffy, 2-3 minutes.
- Add egg and vanilla and mix well.
- Add flour and salt and mix on low speed until incorporated.
- Roll dough into three 1 1/2" logs, wrap in plastic wrap and chill until firm, at least 1 hour or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350° and line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Roll logs in turbinado or granulated sugar, making sure to coat them evenly.
- Slice logs into 1/4" thick cookies and place on cookie sheet 1" apart.
- Use a skewer or toothpick to make four decorative holes in each cookie, making the cookie appear to be a button.
- Bake 15-20 minutes until golden brown.
- Cool on wire rack.
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Reviews
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Really good cookies. Don't leave out the turbinado sugar (though they would still be very nice cookies) as it takes these out of the realm of just good. The sugar adds a wonderful crunch and they are so appealing with their little holes. Thanks for posting this; I will make them often.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
sugarpea
Snohomish, WA
I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.
