Danish May Day Cookies

Name: Danish May Day Cookies (Butterkakker)
Cuisine: Danish
Ingredients: 1¼ sticks / 150 g softened unsalted butter; Scant ½ cup / 100 g sugar; ⅔ cup / 100 g ground almonds; Scraping of vanilla bean or 2 drops vanilla extract; Scraping of vanilla bean or 2 drops vanilla extract; ⅔ cup / 100 g all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; A pinch salt

Butterkakker

Preparation info

Makes about
30
little cookies.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Sacred Food

By Elisabeth Luard

Published 2001

About

Lucky horseshoe cookies to be packed for the traditional spring picnic in Copenhagen’s Tivoli gardens, made with fine flour, imported almonds to make it special, real vanilla, pure white sugar, and the beautiful pale butter yielded by the year’s first milkings.

Ingredients

1¼ sticks / 150 g softened unsalted butter
Scant ½ cup /

Europe
Denmark
Cookies
Vegetarian
Spring

Method

Preheat the oven to 375°F /190°C / Gas 5.
In a warm bowl using a wooden spoon, beat the butter with the sugar till light and white. Beat it some more as you work in the almonds, vanilla, and the flour sifted with the baking powder and salt. Keep on bea