I came across www.ItalianRecipeBook.com and they offer a lot of interesting recipes to try. I came across their Italian Butter Cookie Recipe and it took me back to visiting neighborhood bakeries. As a child my family purchased baked goods from local bakeries. Old women that worked there would always offer me butter cookies that were delicious. This recipe was pretty good and I hardly changed a thing. I did cut the recipe in half and came out with 21 cookies instead of 40 cookies. I used vanilla extract instead of vanilla powder because I don’t have vanilla powder. I made the cookies the right size but for some reason the timing didn’t work out for me…………..Maybe my oven is to blame? Instead of 14 minutes these cookies took me 14 + 5 + 5 + 10 minutes…….but every time I opened the door this oven looses a lot of heat unlike my last oven so opening the door is time costly………….Maybe you won’t have the same problem? These are small but delicious cookies that aren’t too sweet. You might want to eat more than one? This makes around 10 (if you eat two cookies) or 20 servings if you only eat one cookie a serving. I’ll say 15 servings because sometimes you will only eat one cookie.

Ingredients for around 15 servings

4 ounce unsweetened butter – mostly melted

1/2 cup 10X sugar

1 egg

6 ounce flour

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Optional toppings such as jimmies, fancy sugars, chocolate chips. cherries, sesame seeds, or nuts

Directions

Mix together everything but the toppings in a medium-large bowl (butter, sugar, egg, flour, vanilla

This mixture goes in a pastry bag with a large star tip.

You make small swirls (20-21) on parchment lined sheet pan(s).

Top the swirls with your choice of toppings.

They go on the middle rack of the oven till lightly browned. (original recipe reads 14 minutes……I did 14 + 5 + 5 + 10……….?

In the end they came out DELICIOUS!

A Special THANKS!!!!!!!! To www.ItalianRecipeCookBook.com so I could do what I got here!