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Homemade vanilla butter cookies

Name: Homemade vanilla butter cookies
Yield: 4 baking sheets
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 200 g Butter; 200 g Superfine sugar; 3 Eggs; 3 tbsp Milk; 3 tbsp Cream; 2 packets Baking powder (12 g each); to taste Vanilla extract; 1 kg Flour; 50 g Powdered sugar

Vanilla butter cookies made with butter, eggs, cream, and flour. Shape with a cookie press and bake for 15–20 minutes. Makes 4 baking sheets.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15–20 min
Temperature: 180 °C (350 °F)
Servings: 4 baking sheets
Difficulty: Medium
Cuisine: Slovak

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Vanilla butter cookies are a simple homemade treat for kids' snacks or to enjoy with coffee. The dough, made with butter, sugar, eggs, cream, milk, and flour, rests in the refrigerator for about an hour before shaping. Baking at 180 °C (350 °F) takes just 15 to 20 minutes. One advantage of homemade cookies is knowing exactly what goes into them.

Instructions

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Mix the flour with the baking powder. In a separate bowl, mix the sugar with the butter.
Add the eggs to the butter mixture one at a time, followed by the cream, milk, and vanilla extract. Mix everything thoroughly with a wooden spoon.
Gradually mix in the flour mixture and work into a smooth dough. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for about an hour.
Remove the dough from the refrigerator, unwrap it, and shape the cookies using a cookie press. Place them on a clean baking sheet and bake at 180 °C (350 °F) for 15–20 minutes, until lightly colored.
Dust the cookies with powdered sugar before serving.

Tip: After an hour in the refrigerator, let the firm dough soften for a few minutes before loading it into the cookie press. Cold dough tears in the press, leaving the cookies without clearly defined shapes.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per 100 g, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 372 kcal
Protein: 7.4 g
Carbohydrates: 60 g
of which sugars: 15 g
Fat: 11 g
of which saturates: 6.5 g
Fiber: 1.6 g
Salt: 0.3 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 sušienky s vanilkou – hotové za 20 minút