| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 2 hr 58 min |
| Prep: | 20 min |
| Inactive: | 2 hr 30 min |
| Cook: | 8 min |
| Yield: | 24 cookies |
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for work surface
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cups sifted sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Sift together flour and salt into a bowl.
- In the bowl of a standing mixer, add the butter and mix on medium-high until fluffy and light. Add the sugar and the eggs, 1 at a time, until and mix until combined. Add vanilla and cinnamon. Reduce the speed to low and gradually add the flour to the butter, sugar, egg mixture. Mix until batter looks smooth. Place dough onto a flowered cutting board and cut the dough into quarters, flatten and wrap with the plastic. Chill in the refrigerator for 2 1/2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- With a rolling pin covered in flour, roll out dough quarters 1 at a time, on a floured work surface to 1/4 to 1/8-inch thick. Use a variety of cutters to cut out cookies. Transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment and space cookies about 1 1/2-inches apart.
- Bake cookies until they are golden brown, about 8 minutes. Using a using a spatula, transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 24 servings |
| Calories | 231 |
| Total Fat | 14 g |
| Saturated Fat | 9 g |
| Carbohydrates | 24 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Sugar | 10 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Cholesterol | 51 mg |
| Sodium | 81 mg |
Reviews
When mothers and daughters bake together magic happens. You sure had me smiling! You’ve ended another long search for me and I’m a seventy-one year old retired pastry chef. I just wish my mother was alive to taste these. Butter cookies were her favorite. Thank You!
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One of my favorite butter cookie recipes!! They are amazing with butter cream frosting for Christmas. Super addicting!
I don’t eat butter cookies. They are my husband’s favorite, so I decided to try this recipe. Since my husband likes them, I guess I will be making them again. I did taste the dough and the cinnamon adds just the right amount of kick to them without overdoing it. He did say they don’t have the melt in your mouth buttery taste, so I may try to find another recipe.
This recipe was such a waste of my butter and other ingredients. These cookies were horrible. I actually made them before and they were nasty, but then I made them again last nite because I forgot that I used this recipe previously. The cookies taste like flour, they r bland and doughy. I will never make these again.
I love this recipe. These cookies are so easy to make but they are absolutely sensational. Very good balance and the cinnamon adds just the right amount of kick to them without overdoing it. Although I found the dough was very liquid-y. They taste and look just fine after baking them though.
Thanks a lot for sharing this Shelbi!
Thanks a lot for sharing this Shelbi!
Very good.I found the lil piggy cookie cutters and sprinkled with pink sugar.We like a cookie that’s not overly sweeet. A keeper for sure.Thanks Shelbi?
I can honestly say this is the first Neely’s recipe I haven’t loved. These cookies were even more bland than regular sugar cookies, I was so disappointed. They had absolutely no taste to them, I had to load them with homemade buttercream icing before anyone in my house would eat them and I ended up throwing most of them away. I would deff say skip this recipe, I will never be making these again….such a waste of time and ingredients!
These cookies are sooooo yummy! I cut them out and made them sandwich cookies with raspberry jelly in the center and powdered sugar on top – a HUGE hit!! Fill them with nutella too for a chocolaty treat! Easy to roll out and super easy to make – these are now a staple in my cookie ‘jar’ recipe box!!
great recipe my favorit show the neelys