Four ingredient All Butter Cookies recipe

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Some of the best meals and treats are those which only involve a handful of ingredients. Keep them simple, you’re more likely to make them over and over again.  Especially if the ingredients needed are those in the store cupboard or regularly found in the fridge.

I’ve a few 3 or 4 ingredient cookbooks* and I have several favourite recipes in these. They can often be relied on to find a quick and easy meal or treat.  

During lockdown, like so many others, I’ve been doing some baking. They get through so much cake or treats, that I thought baking some biscuits would keep them going for a while. I had in basic ingredients so decided that the simple 4 ingredient all butter cookies would be worth cooking.

Apart from the few ingredients needed, these cookies are just delicious. Everyone who’s eaten them (apart from the OH who bizarrely doesn’t like them) really liked them,and N just keeps going back for more.  

With just unsalted butter, icing sugar (seems bizarre using that and not caster sugar), plain flour and vanilla extract, they’re cheap to make as well. I’ve made them to take into work for birthday treats before, and they always went down well.

The recipe makes a huge batch, and as you chill the dough before using, you can even bake a batch at a time rather than having them all disappear from the biscuit tin at once time. They will last around 4-5 days in an airtight container, if they last that long.

We made our last lot in 2 batches in the aga, so the temperature and timing is a little random, hence our first batch were really pale, and the second batch were a little overdone. If you’re using a normal oven, you’ll likely be able to see in and smell when they’re ready. But they tasted great both ways, and both still had the great snap when breaking the biscuit. 

How to make 4 ingredient all butter cookies

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