Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, italian butter cookies. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Italian Butter Cookies is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Italian Butter Cookies is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

Traditional Italian-American bakery-style butter cookies that will make you feel like you bought them from your favorite local bakery in New York! Fill them with raspberry or apricot preserves, or chocolate, or dip one side in chocolate and cover with sprinkles–or do both! These soft and buttery Italian butter cookies are a little old-fashioned but they're ALWAYS in season.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook italian butter cookies using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Italian Butter Cookies:

1. Take 1 1/2 cup flour
2. Take 1/2 cup cornstarch
3. Take 1/2 cup butter, softened
4. Make ready 1/2 cup shortening
5. Prepare 1 1/4 cup powdered sugar
6. Take 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
7. Get 2 eggs

Every time Nonna would have her "girlfriends" over, a.k.a other Nonne, they would usually bring over a box of old fashioned Italian butter cookies. I would inspect them in amazement as I would trace the perfect swirls of "pasta frolla" (their Italian name) that would lead to a sweet candied cherry. This recipe is as close to an Italian bakery as it gets. Yes now these are the cookies that every Italian loves and knows how to make.

Steps to make Italian Butter Cookies:

1. Cream butter and shortening until fluffy. Add vanilla and eggs (one at a time) until blended.
2. Add dry ingredients, flour, cornstarch and powdered sugar, mix until blended.
3. Using a piping bag with star tip, make quarter size circles on cookie sheet. Make a couple first, if they spread out to much just add 1/4 cup more of flour and cornstarch. I did this because the first few spread out to much. This tip was in the recipe. I guess it's an altitude issue.
4. Bake at 375 for 12 to. 15 minutes or until lightly browned around edges. Remove to rack to cool.
5. Melt chocolate and dip cookies into chocolate and put on rack to set. You can use sprinkles also, they look pretty.

Sometimes they are dipped in chocolate, sometimes they are made with a cookie press and sometimes made like I make them, rolled and cut with cookie cutters. Hence, these Italian Butter Cookies coming into the picture. Growing up in Brooklyn, I was (and still am) basically surrounded by Italian bakeries. With rows upon rows of cookies and cannoli shells on hand, it's safe to say that these bakeries are staples of good ol' Brooklyn. Italian Butter Cookies are way better homemade, you'll never buy them from a store or bakery again!

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