The classic Danish Butter Cookie recipe, provided by Cookist, is so simple

and delicious! Who hasn’t tried and loved these cookies!! Well, now you

can make them – allergy friendly too!

Danish Cookies: the recipe for the famous crumbly and delicious butter cookies

EASY1HFOR 8 PEOPLEDESSERTSRECIPESby Cookist

INGREDIENTS

  • 00 TYPE FLOUR 300 grams
  • BUTTER 200 grams • 717 kcal
  • SUGAR 100 grams • 470 kcal
  • EGGS 1 • 130 kcal **Replacement – 2tbsp. apple sauce, unsweetened
  • VANILLA EXTRACT 1 teaspoon
  • BAKING SODA 1/2 teaspoon
  • SALT a pinch • 1 kcal
  • MILK as much as is needed for brushing • 49 kcal
  • CASTER SUGAR as much as is needed to decorate

Calories refers to 100 gr of product

Danish butter cookies are gluttonous and crumbly butter cookies with an unmistakable taste, perfect to be enjoyed for breakfast or as a snack with a cup of hot tea. Usually sold in the famous blue tin boxes, which we can use then as for a container for various objects, it is possible to prepare these delicious biscuits with butter shortcrust pastry even at home. The dough will be prepared with flour, sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla flavoring. Once the dough is prepared, shape your cookies with the classic Danish biscuit molds: as pretzels, round, rectangular or in the shapes you prefer. But here are all the steps to prepare them.

Instructions

Put the butter with the sugar in a large bowl (1) and work everything with an electric whisk or use a planetary mixer, until obtaining a light and soft mixture (2). Add the egg, vanilla and a pinch of salt and continue to mix all the ingredients. Also add the sifted flour and baking soda and mix them with the help of a spatula until a soft mixture is obtained (3). Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and keep it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.123

After the necessary time, take the dough from the refrigerator and put it on a floured work surface, knead and place it on a sheet of parchment paper. Add another sheet of parchment paper on the dough and roll it out with a rolling pin making a sheet of 1/2 centimeter (4). Cut the cookies with the molds (5), lay them on a dripping pan lined with parchment paper, brush them with milk and add the caster sugar. Bake in a preheated static oven at 180° C for a maximum of 15 minutes or until golden brown. Once ready, let them cool. Your Danish cookies are ready to be enjoyed (6).456

Tips

If the shortcrust pastry is too soft, add more flour little by little. Do not add too much, however, to prevent the dough from becoming too hard.

Danish cookies will require more baking sessions: between one session and another, put the shortcrust pastry in the refrigerator to keep it compact at the right point.

You can enrich your Danish cookies by adding chocolate chips or dried fruit to the dough. To make the cookies even more delicious, then, you can dip them in the chocolate glaze or in the melted tempered dark chocolate.

How to store Danish Cookies

You can preserve Danish cookies for a week in a tin box or in an airtight container.