Swiss Butter Mailaenderli

Preparation info
  • About

    forty-eight

    2 inch cookies
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
How to Bake

By Nick Malgieri

Published 1995

  • About

These delicate cookies are called in Swiss dialect “Little Milanesi”—probably because they were originally based on an Italian cookie.

Ingredients

Dough

  • ½ pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
  • ½ cup sugar

Method

  1. For the dough, beat the butter and sugar by machine on medium speed until very soft and light. Beat in the vanilla and the yolks and continue beating until smooth and shiny, about 3 more minutes. Stop the mixer, sift over the flour, and with a rubber spatula fold in by hand. Scrape the dough onto a piece of plastic wrap, cover with another piece of wrap, and with your ha