Butter Cookies and Cocoa Cookies
Rich, flavorful butter and cocoa cookies made with only butter, flour, and sugar.
Ingredients
Unsalted butter
150 g
Cake flour (for cocoa cookies, sift together with cocoa powder)
220 g (butter cookies) / 190 g (cocoa cookies)
Cocoa powder (only for cocoa cookies)
30 g
Refined sugar
80 g
Vanilla extract
a pinch
Instructions
1
Prepare the ingredients
Place the butter in a bowl and let it soften at room temperature. Sift the cake flour through a fine-mesh sieve.
2
Cream the butter
Use a whisk to beat the butter until it becomes a white, creamy paste. Add the refined sugar in 2–3 batches, mixing thoroughly after each addition. Pour in the vanilla extract and mix well.
3
Make the cookie dough
Add the sifted cake flour (for cocoa cookies, also add the cocoa powder), stir with a spatula, and gather the mixture into a single ball of dough.
4
Chill the dough
Lay a sheet of plastic wrap on the counter, place the dough on it, wrap it up, and use your hands to roll and stretch it into a cylinder. Once it reaches about 3 cm in diameter, place it (still wrapped) in the refrigerator to chill for 1 hour.
5
Slice and bake
Preheat the oven to 170 °C. Remove the plastic wrap and use a knife to cut the dough into rounds about 1 cm wide. If the center is too soft to cut cleanly, return the remaining dough to the refrigerator to firm up. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, place the cookie rounds on it with 3–4 cm between them, and bake in the 170 °C oven for 15–20 minutes.
