Off-to-Bed Butter Cookies

Name: Off-to-Bed Butter Cookies
Prep time: 5 h
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h
Yield: 48
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 355 milliliters all-purpose flour; 59 milliliters granulated sugar; 2 teaspoons heavy cream; 0 teaspoons salt; 3 Tbsps turbinado sugar such as Sugar in the Raw; 177 milliliters 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened

Off-to-Bed Butter Cookies is a vegetarian recipe with 48 servings. One portion of this dish contains about 0g of protein, 3g of fat, and a total of 47 calories. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It works best as a dessert, and is done in around 5 hours. 1 person found this recipe to be scrumptious and satisfying. A mixture of salt, granulated sugar, butter, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious.

Instructions

Stir together flour and salt in a bowl.

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All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Bowl

Beat together butter and granulated sugar with an electric mixer at medium-high speed in a large bowl until pale and fluffy. Reduce speed to low, then add flour mixture in 3 batches, mixing, and continue to mix until batter just comes together in clumps. Gather clumps to form a dough, then press dough with lightly floured hands into a smooth 1 1/4-inch-thick log on a very lightly floured work surface. Chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, at least 1 hour.

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Granulated Sugar

Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Wrap

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Hand Mixer

Plastic Wrap

Bowl

Put oven racks in upper and lower thirds of oven and preheat oven to 350°F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.

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Cut chilled log crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices and arrange slices about 1/2 inch apart on baking sheets.

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Baking Sheet

Brush tops of cookies lightly with cream, then sprinkle generously with turbinado sugar.

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Turbinado Sugar

Cream

Bake cookies, switching position of sheets halfway through baking, until edges are pale golden, 12 to 15 minutes total. Cool on sheets on racks.

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·Dough log can be chilled, wrapped well in plastic wrap, up to 3 days or frozen, wrapped in plastic and foil, 1 month (thaw in refrigerator just until dough can be sliced).·Cookies keep 4 days in an airtight container at room temperature.

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Dough

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Aluminum Foil