26 traditional butter cookies Recipes

ammonia (hartshorn) or 1/2 tsp baking powder, milk, eggs, room temperature, powdered sugar (1 - 1 1/2 lb), unsalted butter, softened but not melted, salt, anise (if substituting fruit flavored oils, use 3 tsp), cake flour, grated orange rind (enhances flavor of the traditional anise or the citrus flavors, optional, optional) (optional) or lemon rind (enhances flavor of the traditional anise or the citrus flavors) (optional), flour (more as needed)

sugar, butter, softened, semisweet chocolate or 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted and cooled, vanilla, eggs, baked pie crust (traditional, graham cracker, or cookie crumb crust), whipping cream, well-chilled, sugar, chocolate curls (optional), chocolate chips (optional)

peanut butter , crunchy, milk chocolate chips, brown sugar, vanilla extract, simply potatoes traditional mashed potatoes

cake flour, brown sugar or 2 cups yellow sugar, if available, baking soda, cream of tartar, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg (optional), salt, butter, soft, rendered pork fat (or crisco if you must, see note below about pork fat), sweet sherry or 1/2 cup muscatel or 1/2 cup madeira wine or 1/2 cup port wine, but you may need up to 3/4 cup of the sweet wine, eggs, whisked well