3 ingredient Butter Cookies in 10 minutes, No Eggs or Hand Mixer
These Butter Cookies are soft and simple to make using only 3 ingredients. It does not need any Eggs, Baking Powder, or require a Hand Mixer. We show you how to make these Butter Cookies in the stove and in the oven. In this recipe, we also make Chocolate Butter Cookies.
These Butter Cookies are perfect with a Ginger Tea for afternoon teatime. You can store these cookies in an airtight container for about a month or longer.
If you like cookies, you will want to try my Sri Lankan Sago Biscuits or my old fashioned Gnanakatha Cookies recipe.
Total Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients
- 250g of All Purpose Flour
- 100g of Powdered Sugar (you can also blend Sugar into a powder)
- 175g of Butter
- Some Vanilla Extract
For the Chocolate Butter Cookies
- 50g of Cocoa Powder
Instructions
Preparing the Butter Cookies
- Add 250g of All Purpose Flour into a bowl.
- Add 100g of Powdered Sugar.
- Mix these dry ingredients together thoroughly using your hands.
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Add 175g of Buter a little at a time while mixing.
- Add some Vanilla Extract.
- For the Chocolate Butter Cookies, add 50g of Cocoa Powder.
- Knead the dough thoroughly.
- Now break off small pieces of the dough and form it into a ball in your hand.
- Place the dough balls on a preparation board.
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Use a cookie shape cutter to slightly flatten and leave an impression of the shape on top.
For baking it in the Oven
- Cover a baking tray with parchment paper.
- Place the cookies on the parchment paper spread apart.
- Sprinkle some Sugar on top.
- Preheat the oven to 160 celsius.
- Bake for about 10 to 15 minutes.
- After baking the Cookies, let it cool down before serving.
For baking it on the Stove Top
- Cover a baking pan with parchment paper.
- Place the Cookies on the parchment paper spread apart.
- Place this baking pan inside a large pot and put on the stove.
- Cover with a lid and cook over low heat for 15 minutes.
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