Nick Malgieri

Cinnamon Butter Cookies

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Preparation info

  • 24

    cookies
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Baker's Tour: Nick Malgieri's Favorite Baking Recipes from Around the World
A Baker's Tour

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2005

  • About

These intriguing-looking cookies are a specialty of the Beira Litoral region of Portugal. They are adapted from Cozinha Tradicional Portuguesa (Traditional Portuguese Cooking) by Maria de Lourdes Modesto (Editorial Verbo, 1982).

Ingredients

  • 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 5 tabl

Method

  1. Set racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees.
  2. Stir the flour and cinnamon together and set aside.
  3. Beat the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on medium speed u