Melt-in-your-mouth Vanilla Butter Cookies

Recipe adapted from http://www.food.com/ and made some tweaks in between.

What You'll Need:

• 1 cup butter or margerine
• 3/4 cup sugar (I reduced to 1/2 cup since I didn't want it to be sweet for lil K)
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 1/2 cups flour (I used 2 3/4 cups because I find the dough too soft to be rolled)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

 

How To:

1. Cream butter or margarine with sugar.
2. Add eggs and vanilla and mix.
3. Add flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.
4. At this point you can either roll out and cut with cookie cutters or roll dough into 1 inch balls and flatten on cookie sheet. (Cookie cutters take longer time, so rolling the dough to balls and flatten them is best if you want to save time)
5. Bake at 160C for 8-10 minutes till golden brown.

Verdict: The cookies really melt in the mouth as the title says,  even though I added another 1/4 cup of flour to the batter. And because I used superfine flour, the texture is really soft and fine! A yummy easy to make cookie.