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Old-Fashioned Butter Cookies

Old-Fashioned Butter Cookies

Passed down for four generations, these buttery sugar cookies bring back fond memories of Grandma's cookie jar.


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30 min
Prep Time
60 min
Total Time
48
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Ingredients

1 cup Land O Lakes® Butter, softened

3/4 cup sugar

2 large Land O Lakes® Eggs (yolks only)

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

 

Pecan halves

How to make

  1. STEP 1

    Heat oven to 350°F.

  2. STEP 2

    Combine butter, sugar, egg yolks and vanilla in bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until well mixed. Add flour and salt; beat at low speed, scraping bowl often, until well mixed.

  3. STEP 3

    Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets. Flatten balls to 1/4-inch thickness with bottom of glass dipped in sugar. Place pecan half in center of each cookie.

  4. STEP 4

    Bake 10-12 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; remove to cooling rack.

Tip #1

Cookies can be flattened with decorative cookie stamp instead of glass.

Nutrition (1 cookie)

90 Calories
5 Fat (g)
30 Cholesterol (mg)
80 Sodium (mg)
12 Carbohydrates (g)
0 Dietary Fiber
1 Protein (g)
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