Traditional butter cookies

Traditional butter cookies are delicious to eat, and need not be an expert pastry chef to prepare them yourself. With this recipe you can make these cookies at any time you feel hungry that. We constantly prepare them at home.

Shortbread Ingredients:

- 300 grams of butter
- 2 large eggs
- 350 grams of cake flour
- 250 grams of sugar
- A bit of cinnamon
- A little bit of salt

Preparation:

Butter cookies that will prepare this recipe are lifelong, authentic Danish pastries we've all ever eaten. Who does not remember those decorated tin boxes stuffed with tasty cookies ?. You will see that it is easy to prepare them in your kitchen, in a short time and with few ingredients. We get the recipe, read carefully.

We advise you to always have all the prepared ingredients, ie, measured and weighed the necessary and all by hand, for drawing quick and we will not forget any of the ingredients. In this case butter and eggs should be out of the refrigerator to use them at room temperature, so keep that in mind and take them out before anything.

Let's take a large container where we can beat the ingredients, either manual or automatic rods. It is always faster the second option, with a better mix of everything is further achieved. We will use a mixer with rods.

The first thing that will pour into the cup butter together the sugar, and we will beat until blended to form a creamy mass. Once this is done, we add the eggs, beat again with the rods until the dough obtained is homogeneous and where everything is well mixed.

In a separate bowl sift the flour we have, so get filtering your impurities or lumps that could have, since the flour tends to cake with time and do not want to find those pesky lumps then cookies. Once sifted, we added slowly into the cup where we beat all of the above, and re-use the rods that go perfectly mixing. also adds a touch of cinnamon, one or two level teaspoons, according want more or less intense flavor. At the end you have to stay a perfectly homogeneous mass and somewhat sticky.

We're going to knead with your hands, patiently and carefully for a few minutes. Employ some flour so that you will not stick the dough in your hand. At the end make a ball with it, or two to make them more manageable, and put each of them in baking paper. Cover them with this paper and stretch them using a rolling pin. When you have well-spread, let them sit for an hour or so, better if you put in the fridge.

When you pass the time, turn on the oven and bring to 180 ° C, with heat both above and below. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and stretch a little further with the roller, until it is the thickness that will give the cookies. It is very important not to make too thick, because we remain raw on the inside, but not too thin, because we would be hard. A thickness of about 5-7 mm is suitable. Perhaps the first time will not be perfect, but if you go writing down the steps and baking times, sure you are going to improve in the following times.

Remove the baking paper on top of the biscuits, and with the help of cookie cutters begins to cut the dough for cookies. As you place them by cutting them on the baking sheet where you go to bake.

When the oven has reached 180 ° C, put the tray with cookies and bake for about 15-20 minutes, because every oven is different and may vary slightly from one to another. When the cookies are golden brown in the middle and slightly darker at the edges, they are ready. Remove them and let them cool on a wire rack to the bottom breathe.

And already you have lists these great shortbread, traditional and simple to prepare. If you want you can add some embellishment over, like sugar glass, but so are already delicious to eat.