Piped Butter Cookies

By ctozzi

Ingredients

• 100 g cake flour
• 65 g butter, softened at room temperature
• 15 g caster sugar
• 35 g icing sugar
• 1/2 egg
• 1/8 tsp vanilla extract (for vanilla flavoured)
• replace 5 g of flour with 5 g green tea for green tea flavoured)
• replace 10 g of flour with 10 g cocoa powder (for chocolate flavour)

Details

Adapted from spearbakemean.blogspot.ca

Preparation

Step 1

1.Mix butter with caster sugar and icing sugar. Beat until light and fluffy.
2.Add in egg in thirds, beating thoroughing after each addition.
3.Add vanilla extract (if using) and beat thoroughly.
4.Sift in cake flour (and green tea powder/ cocoa powder if using) and fold with a rubber spatula.
5.Pipe into desired shapes. (I chilled the dough in the fridge for 15 mins after piping.)

6.Bake at 190 deg C for 10 mins until golden brown. (I baked mine at 180 deg C for 15 mins.)
7.Store in air-tight containers after cooling.