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Danish butter cookies

Serves 20 $0.28 est. / serving

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Estimated ingredient cost$5.55For the whole recipe · ingredients used
Danish butter cookies
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YOUR TIME IN THE KITCHEN

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  1. 01

    Sift flour with baking powder, add chopped butter, sugar, vanilla sugar, pinch of salt, eggs and grated lemon peel. Mix to combine and knead into the dough.

  2. 02

    Wrap the dough with plastic wrap and let it sit for 30 minutes in the refrigerator.

  3. 03

    On a working desktop or a silicone mat sprinkled with sugar roll out with a rolling pin 5 mm thick dough. Brush with water and sprinkle with sugar. With a palm of your hand lightly press sugar into the dough. Cut into desired shapes with a cookie cutter.

  4. 04

    Place cookies onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking sheet. Bake 10 - 12 minutes at 180 ° C. They are done when the ends become slightly golden.

  5. 05

    Cool and put in a tightly closed metal container. They will keep for several weeks.

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Recipe source

Foodista / Common Pile

Original recipe · CC BY 3.0

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Photograph

File:Shortbread3.jpg — Hortensja Bukietowa. Own work

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  • Flour

    File:All-Purpose Flour (4107895947).jpg — Veganbaking.net from USA. All-Purpose Flour

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  • Baking powder

    File:BakingPowder.jpg — Lou Sander. Own work

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  • Butter

    File:Butter curls.jpg — David Masters. Flickr : Curled Butter

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  • Sugar

    File:Bowl of white sugar.jpg — Douglas P Perkins. Own work

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  • Salt

    File:Table salt (53686886134).jpg — Conall from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. table salt. Original embedded copyright notice: CONALLMCCAUGHEY

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  • Egg

    Own work

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  • Lemon

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