Italian Butter Cookies - Real Recipes from Mums

Lovely “shortbread’ style biscuit. Easy to make and yummy with a cuppa!

Ingredients (makes 24 cookies)

1 cup Butter- softened slightly
1/2 cup Sugar
1/3 cup icing sugar
2 eggs
1 eggyolk
1 1/2 teaspoos vanilla
2 1/2 cups plain flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon Baking powder

Method

Pre heat oven to 180 deg. Cream butter and sugars until smooth and fluffy.
Add eggs and vanilla til combined
sift flour baking powder and salt together and add to the butter mixture. Mix together until just combined
Scoop dough into a cookie press ( or piping bag) Squeeze cookies onto paper lined trays
Bake cookies for 10-12 minutes or until the edges are just golden Cool on wire rack

Notes

If mixture is a little stiff to pipe you can mix a little milk into it . If you pipe "log" shapes they can be dipped in chocolate for extra yumminess!

21 Comments

- - mom268263 said
  - 30 Aug 2020
    8:54 pm
Butter cookies are hard to beat on the melt in the mouth scale. Will add this to my recipe list. The flower shape is especially decorative.

- - happymum2018 said
  - 03 May 2019
    10:51 pm
I wondered how you rolled them into there elegant shape, thanks so much they’regorgeous g

- - mom112023 said
  - 31 Jan 2019
    6:12 pm
Look so good. Thanks for the recipe.

- - youngoldlady said
  - 24 Dec 2018
    9:40 pm
These were very tasty to make. Made some dipped in different chocolates.

- - mom62624 said
  - 24 Jun 2018
    8:42 am
Lovely to share, thanks so much.

- - cherz said
  - 20 Jun 2018
    7:24 pm
These look and sound so deliciously buttery..oh I do love shortbread and these look delightful.thanks for sharing.

- - Staceylee101 said
  - 19 Jun 2018
    10:34 pm
Ooh yum!! Top of my list for sure. I attempted shortbread cookies last year and I completely failed at it. I’ll give it another crack.

- - curlytops said
  - 19 Jun 2018
    8:18 am
looking at the ingredient list these looks like they will melt in your mouth biscuits. delicious!

- - nadine_hill said
  - 18 Jun 2018
    8:26 pm
Love shortbread and this sounds like a great change to the recipe!

- - youngoldlady said
  - 16 Jun 2018
    10:10 pm
Thank you for this, have not used my cookie press in ages. Now to think what shape to use.

- - mom160421 said
  - 16 Jun 2018
    3:17 pm
Thank you LuckyMum for posting another great recipe. I love this one.

- - mom81879 said
  - 16 Jun 2018
    9:42 am
I was intrigued as to how they got the shape, it’s so fancy and intricate. Sounds like a rich, crumbly, buttery mix

- - mom101628 said
  - 15 Jun 2018
    10:12 pm
Bet the taste of these is wonderful – thanks for sharing your recipe.

- - mom90758 said
  - 15 Jun 2018
    6:25 pm
So beautiful and buttery! They must be delicious!

- - kjgarner said
  - 15 Jun 2018
    12:25 pm
They look like beautiful flowers

- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 15 Jun 2018
    10:46 am
These shortbread cookies look so yummy I so want to make them

- - mom112217 said
  - 15 Jun 2018
    9:08 am
I love your butter cookies they look delicious,thanks!

- - taynik46 said
  - 15 Jun 2018
    9:02 am
lovely bikkies – thank you for sharing, they sound like they would be perfect with a nice cup of tea

- - mom93821 said
  - 15 Jun 2018
    8:27 am
Such pretty looking butter cookies – bet they taste yummy too.
- mom93821 replied
  
  16 Jun 2018 , 7:17 am
  Where did you get the cookie press/shapes for the cookies? Would love to know – so very pretty.
- - Mum2archer said
  - 15 Jun 2018
    2:58 am
These look really pretty. Thanks for sharing.