HappyCook80's Recipe

Tiny Vanilla Butter Cookies

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Tiny Vanilla Butter Cookies

1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
1/3 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup all-purpose flour

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Adjust the oven rack to the middle
position. Have ready a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2 inch tip. Line 3 baking sheets with cooking parchment paper.

Using an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar together on the lowest speed until pale and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla, still mixing on low speed. Gradually add all the flour. Finish mixing by hand by scraping with a spatula from the bottom of the bowl.

Fill the pastry bag half full and pipe 1/2-inch balls of dough 1 inch apart onto the cookie sheets. Bake 1 tray at a time, rotating the tray 180 degrees after 5 minutes. Bake for 5 minutes more, or unti the cookies are brown on the edges and set in the center. Watch carefully since these cookies quickly become too brown. Let cool before removing from the sheets. Store in the refrigerator in airtight tins.
Yields 125 tiny cookies.