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4-ingredient butter dough for cookies and tarts

Name: 4-ingredient butter dough for cookies and tarts
Yield: About 20 pieces
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 100 g Butter; 150 g Semi-coarse wheat flour; 50 g Powdered sugar; 1 pinch Salt

Butter dough made with flour, powdered sugar, and salt in one bowl. Chill before using for cookies or tarts; makes about 20 pieces.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10–15 min
Servings: About 20 pieces
Difficulty: Easy

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This 4-ingredient butter dough for cookies and tarts comes together in a few minutes in one bowl with just butter, semi-coarse wheat flour, powdered sugar, and a pinch of salt. Mix softened butter with the sugar and salt, add the flour, and let the dough rest in the refrigerator for half an hour. You don't have to bake it right away: you can freeze it, let it stand at room temperature for five minutes, then slice off only as much as you need.

Ingredients

Butter 100 g
Semi-coarse wheat flour 150 g
Powdered sugar 50 g
Salt 1 pinch

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Instructions

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Mix the softened butter with the sugar and salt.
Add the sifted flour and work into a dough.
Refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes.
Use the dough as needed; no baking powder is necessary. The baked cookies will be tender and melt in your mouth.

Tip: Work quickly and avoid kneading the dough for too long, as the warmth of your hands would melt the butter and the cookies would lose their tender texture. If the dough sticks while cutting out shapes, return it to the refrigerator briefly.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per piece, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 73 kcal
Protein: 0.8 g
Carbohydrates: 8.2 g
of which sugars: 2.5 g
Fat: 4.1 g
of which saturates: 2.5 g
Fiber: 0.2 g
Salt: 0.1 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Maslové cesto na sušienky a koláče zo 4 surovín