5 un butter baking cookies Recipes

unsalted butter, room temperature, flour, icing sugar (split into 2 half cups) or 1 cup confectioners sugar (split into 2 half cups), vanilla, baking powder

pecan chocolate dipped cookies, flour, sweet softened butter, sugar, egg yolk, vanilla, chopped or ground (i use) nuts, cream butter well, add sugar cream again, add egg and vanilla mix until light and fluffy., gradually stir in flour and nuts., shape into 2 rolls in plastic wrap or wax paper., refrigerate at least 2 hours or overnight (this can be made few days ahead of time), before baking take from refrigerator and let sit out least 20 minutes before cutting. preheat oven to 350 degrees. these should be 1/4 inch or less. do not cut the cookies paper thin. bake on cookie sheet un-greased or on parchment paper (what i use), bake for 8-10 minutes. cool cookies. when cookies are cool then dip them into the following chocolate mixture. you can dip whole half into chocolate. but i usually dip only half top part of cookie.

unsalted butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, floor, baking powder, cing -1/2 cup powdered sugar

butter or 1/2 cup margarine, un-sifted powdered sugar, egg, lime juice, lime zest, all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt, corn flakes, coarsely crushed