How to Make Butter-based Cookie Dough

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By Axl J. Amistaadt
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Make Butter-based Cookie Dough

Baking and eating yummy cookies is a holiday tradition for many folks, although great cookies should really be enjoyed all year. Anyone who bakes lots of cookies needs a good, versatile, all-purpose butter-based cookie dough recipe. You'll save yourself lots of time using a single basic dough because you can use it as the foundation for creating other variations from it. This very basic butter-based cookie dough is simple to make, easy to adapt for use with your other recipes and yields about 16 dozen 2-inch cookies.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Salted butter Granulated white sugar Large egg yolks Vanilla extract All-purpose flour

Step 1

Cream 1 pound of salted butter with 1 1/3 cups granulated white sugar, using an electric hand mixer on medium-high speed, in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
Step 2

Beat in 3 large egg yolks one at a time, blending well following each addition.
Step 3

Beat in 2 tsp. vanilla extract, mixing well.
Step 4

Beat in 4 2/3 cups all-purpose flour by heaping tablespoonfuls, blending well following each addition, until ingredients are just combined.
Step 5

Wrap the butter-based cookie dough in plastic, if you're not going to use it right away. You can keep it in the refrigerator for up to 48 hours before you're ready to use it. You can also freeze it if you need to do so for about 3 weeks.

Tips & Warnings

If the butter-based cookie dough becomes too soft and sticky while you're working with it, simply set it in the freezer for a few minutes to firm it up again.

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