Annie Halls Butter Cookies Recipes

ANNIE HALL'S BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With an electric mixer, cream together butter & sugar. Add egg yolks & vanilla and mix well. Sift flour and salt together and beat into butter mixture until well mixed. When ready to bake, use an ungreased cookie sheet and place cookies 1" apart. Bake for about 10 minutes, but DO NOT brown them. Remove cookies from cookie sheet while still warm and cool on sheets of waxed paper. Decorate if you like.

SUSAN BRANCH'S BUTTER COOKIES - THE BEST (REALLY)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°.
• With an electric mixer (even the hand-held kind), cream together the butter and the sugar.
• Add egg yolks and vanilla and mix well.
• Sift flour and salt together, shaking back and forth in a fine sieve.
• Beat into the butter mixture until well-mixed.
• When ready to bake, use an ungreased cookie sheet and place the cookies 1 inch apart.
• Bake for about 10 minutes and DO NOT BROWN THEM.
• Remove the cookies from the cookie sheet while still warm and cool on sheets of waxed paper.
• Decorate if you like:.
• Shape dough into a roll the width of a cookie.
• Wrap in waved paper and chill.
• Before baking, roll in chocolate shots.
• Slice 1/2 inch thick and bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 350° for 10 minutes. Do Not Brown.