Swedish Butter Cookies

This soft and melt-in-the-mouth cookies are delicious.  With only four ingredients, few simple steps and a short baking time of 12 to 17 minutes (depending on the type of oven we are using), this is something which we will bake again and again to enjoy!  This recipe is adapted from Sifu Kenneth Goh @ Food Bloggers and Foodies United.  

Ingredients:

80g butter (softened)

40g icing sugar (sifted)

80g potato starch (sifted)

40g flour (sifted)

Drops of vanilla essence (optional, which I did not use)

Methods:

1. Beat butter and icing sugar until light and pale.  
2. Add in vanilla essence, if used.
3. Add in the potato starch and flour, use the mixer's lowest speed to beat for 30 seconds.  I prefer to use baking spatula to mix the flour into the butter and icing sugar mixture, follow by hand till well combined.
4. Using hand flatten the dough into rectangular shape and wrap in cling film.
5. Chill in the fridge for about 20 minutes until the dough is easy to handle.
6. Pinch some of the dough and roll into a ball, lightly press using your thumb.
7. Put the dough into a greased baking tray and use a fork to create your preferred patterns.
8. If the dough is too sticky to handle, dust your hands with either potato starch or flour.
9. Bake in a pre-heated oven of 150 degree Celsius for about 12 to 17 minutes.
10. Once the cookies are out of the oven let the biscuits rest in the baking tray for about 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack for further cooling.
11. Once completely cooled store in an air tight container.

ready for baking

ready to be served

stored in air tight container