Basic Butter Cookie Dough

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Preparation info
  • Makes Enough for

    30

    Cookies
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Baking

By James Peterson

Published 2009

  • About

The basic dough for butter cookies, sugar cookies, and holiday cookies is made like a sweetened pie dough with extra butter and a little baking powder to make it richer and lighter. This dough can be shaped with your hands—as shown for the jelly cookies on the facing page—or rolled out with a pin as shown for the holiday cookies. Remember to always keep this dough cold.

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