I have
tried quite a few recipes to make good nice butter cookies and I have always
ended up messing around the kitchen for hours and, I’m sorry, I can’t allow it.
Here I’m sharing
with you the BEST and QUICKEST recipe I have ever tried (for now). I got it
from the book Chocolate (that you can find in Natura stores in Spain). I once woke up
craving for something sweet and special for breakfast and I baked them in less
than 40 minutes!
Tell me,
don’t you feel like baking them right away? I think it is the perfect recipe
for the coming Christmas meals to make with the kids!
Ingredients (4 ppl)- 200 gr of butter
- 350 gr of flour
- 2 spoons of cacao powder
- 140 gr of sugar
Elaboration
First of
all, sift the flour and cacao in a large bowl (I always tend to use crystal
instead of plastic one before I am a bit paranoid and I believe plastic might
leave some bad specks haha).
Then, add the butter and knead all the ingredients
with your hands until you get a consistency of breadcrumbs.
On a
floured surface, stretch the dough into 1 cm sheet.
Now it is the time to let
your creativity fly away! As I want to make everything quick and easy, I make
nice cookies with my super original winter cutter-like instruments! (I say “original”
because they are from Ikea and come into a pre-made set, but they are cute
anyway ;).
If you don’t want to spend money on it, choose a small cup, put it upside down on the dough, press and you will get a circular plain cookie.
If you don’t want to spend money on it, choose a small cup, put it upside down on the dough, press and you will get a circular plain cookie.
Place the
cookies in the baking tray.
Bake the
cookies in the oven for 30 minutes (previously heated at 180oC,). Remember it will
depend on the oven you have to it is always good to have a look (and smell!)
after the first 15-20 minutes to check how it is going on.
Take them
out from the oven and display them in oven rack tray and sprinkle the sugar all
over the cookies.
I made them
with cacao but you can leave them without it and, then, soak them into black or
white chocolate, add some jam, anything you just can imagine!
One more
thing: eat them!! But be careful, they are too easy to bake them again soon ;)
Font: Chocolate
