Now that responsibility invites us to be at home, cooking becomes great entertainment. These butter cookies They are simple and will make you have a good time as a family while you prepare the dough and bake it. Once in the oven, the aroma they give off will alter all your gastric juices, I assure you!
Butter cookies are a classic to Coffee time. We should not abuse them for their amount of sugar, but very occasionally we can indulge ourselves. Even more so if we bathe them in chocolate as we have done today. I particularly prefer to make it in dark chocolate, but I was not the one who was going to enjoy them.
By themselves they are a delight but dipped in chocolate they take on another level. Also, if you have children at home it can be fun to leave this part to them always with supervision. They come out about 18 small cookies, enough to give you a treat during the snack. Do you dare to do them?
- 5 tablespoons butter, softened
- ¼ cup white sugar
- ⅛ teaspoon of almond extract (you can skip it or substitute it with vanilla)
- ⅛ teaspoon of salt
- ½ cup + extra all-purpose flour
- 10 ounces chocolate
- Salt flakes, optional
- We preheat the oven at 180 ° C and line the oven tray with parchment paper.
- We beat the butter and the sugar in a bowl, until obtaining a creamy mixture.
- We add the extract of almonds, salt and flour, and mix with a spatula and enveloping movements until they are integrated. You can finish doing it with your hands.
- We form a ball of dough, we place it on plastic wrap and flatten it slightly so that it has a disk shape. We wrap it in the film and put it in the fridge to rest for 30 minutes.
- After time we flour a countertop, place the dough on top and the we stretch with the help of a roller until it is 0,6 cm thick. approximately.
- We cut the cookies with the desired shape and place them on the baking tray.
- Bake 12 minutes or until they start to brown around the edges.
- So we take them out and leave them cool completely.
- Then we melt the chocolate Microwave (20 second strokes) and submerge each cookie halfway. We place them on a rack, sprinkle a little salt and wait until the chocolate hardens.