French Butter Cookies

We make our tender bite-size butter cookies out of an easy handmade dough that’s fun for kids to help smear on the counter, a process that ensures the cookies don’t form blisters as they bake. We like how the finished cookies melt in your mouth but still have a bit of snap (no matter how aggressively the dough is formed by little hands) and just enough sweetness to make them craveable. The dough is also freezer-friendly; make the dough as written, form the disk or roll the dough into a log,