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Butter: Scandanavian Gilded Butter Cookies

Source of Recipe

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List of Ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 large egg yolk
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 tbl. water -- (2 to 3)
gold dust
few drops vodka


Recipe

Cream butter, sugar, salt and egg yolk until smooth. Mix in the flour to make a smooth dough. Form dough into a ball and flatten; wrap in plastic and refrigerate, covered, overnight or for up to four days, so that flavors can develop. Divide chilled dough into four equal pieces. On a lightly floured surface, roll one piece of dough to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut into shapes using a 2-inch cookie cutter, or cut into rectangles or squares using a pastry wheel.

Place on baking sheets covered with parchment paper or baking paper. Bake at 350ºF until cookies are very lightly browned on the edges, 9 to 12 minutes. Remove cookies on their paper onto countertop to cool. Mix confectioners' sugar with enough liquid to make a thin glaze. Brush tops of cookies with the glaze. Mix a very small amount of gold dust (1/8 teaspoon or so), with about 3 drops of vodka. Lightly brown the edges of the cookies with the gold to gild. Makes about 6 dozen.