Description
Danish butter cookies embody pure Danish culinary tradition with simple ingredients creating nostalgic sweetness. Delicate rounds melt in your palate, connecting generations through classic comfort and buttery perfection that calls you home.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups (240 grams / 8.5 oz) flour
- ½ cup (100 grams / 3.5 oz) sugar
- 1 cup (226 grams / 8 oz) European style butter, room temperature
- 1 egg, room temperature
- 1 tbsp (15 mL / 0.5 fl oz) vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp (0.6 grams) salt
- white chocolate (optional)
- M&M’s (optional)
- sprinkles (optional)
Instructions
- Preparation: Ignite oven to 350°F and line baking sheets with parchment paper, creating an ideal non-stick landscape for delicate cookie crafting.
- Mixing Base: Utilize stand mixer to harmonize butter, sugar, and salt into a cloud-like, pillowy consistency that promises an ethereal cookie texture.
- Binding Elements: Incorporate vanilla extract and egg, blending with precision until the mixture achieves a seamless, uniform composition, meticulously scraping mixer walls to integrate every morsel.
- Flour Integration: Delicately fold flour into wet ingredients, using gentle motions that preserve the cookie’s signature tenderness, ceasing mixer immediately upon complete incorporation.
- Shaping Technique: Transfer dough to piping bag fitted with an elegant star tip, ready to sculpt classic Danish cookie silhouettes with artistic precision.
- Cookie Formation: Pipe elegant swirls onto prepared sheets, maintaining strategic spacing to accommodate graceful expansion during baking process.
- Baking Performance: Slide into preheated oven, monitoring closely for 12-15 minutes until edges transform into a soft, inviting golden embrace, signaling peak perfection.
- Cooling Strategy: Momentarily rest cookies on baking sheets to stabilize structural integrity, then transition to wire rack for complete cooling.
- Finishing Touch: Optionally embellish with melted white chocolate drizzle, decorative sprinkles, or vibrant candy accents while cookies retain gentle warmth.
Notes
- Butter Quality Matters: Use high-fat European-style butter for authentic Danish cookie richness and superior flavor profile.
- Piping Precision: Chill dough for 15-20 minutes before piping to maintain crisp swirl shapes and prevent spreading during baking.
- Temperature Control: Watch cookies carefully between 12-15 minute mark, as ovens vary and golden edges indicate perfect doneness.
- Storage Secrets: Store completely cooled cookies in airtight containers with parchment between layers to maintain crispness for up to 7 days.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes (per batch)
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: Danish
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 25
- Calories: 172
- Sugar: 4 g
- Sodium: 1 mg
- Fat: 10 g
- Saturated Fat: 6 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 18 g
- Fiber: 0.5 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 33 mg