Holiday Butter Cookies

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Makes 6 dozen cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon butter vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 1/4 2 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
  • Food coloring, sprinkles, jimmies and colored sugar as desired

Preparation

Step 1

1 Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2 This recipe can be prepared on or off the stand, attach the beaters and cream the butter and sugar on speed 5 until firmly blended, about 1 minute. Scrape bowl.
3 Add egg, vanilla and butter vanilla and mix for 1 minute. Scrape bowl again.
4 Add salt, baking powder and flour, and mix on lowest speed just until dry ingredients are incorporated. Add a few dropd of food coloring, if desired.
5 Fill cookie press to MAX line; attach desired disk press cookies out onto foil-lined cookie sheets. If you do not own a cookie press, roll dough into 1" logs, chill for 1 hour and slice logs into 1/3" thick coins or circles, place on cookie sheets. Top with desired sprinkles.
6 Bake for 10-15 minutes.