ITALIAN BAKERY BUTTER COOKIE RECIPE RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Combine cake flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.
• Combine butter, sugar, and shortening in a large bowl; cream with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Mix in almond paste until thoroughly combined. Add eggs, vanilla extract, lemon juice, and almond extract. Reduce the mixing speed to low and slowly add dry ingredients. Scrape down the bowl once all dry ingredients are added, then mix on medium speed until evenly combined, about 30 seconds.
• Fit a large pastry bag with an 864 or 4S tip and fill bag with batter. Pipe evenly sized cookies onto an ungreased cookie sheet 1 1/2 to 2 inches apart, giving cookies space to puff slightly during baking.
• Bake in the preheated oven, in batches if necessary, until bottom edges are slightly browned, 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

Steps:

• In a mixer bowl add butter a room temperature. Beat on medium speed until it becomes fluffy and gets lighter in color.
• Add powdered sugar, beat until combined.
• Add eggs and continue beating for 1-2 minutes until you get a fluffy airy batter.
• Using a kitchen spatula fold in previous measured and sieved flour, baking powder and vanilla powder. Pass again with a mixer to get a smooth batter.
• NOTE: Instead of vanilla you can use lemon or orange zest of an organic, untreated citrus to add extra flavor to the cookies.
• As a final result you should have a pretty stiff cookie dough.NOTE: if the dough is TOO stiff to pipe, add 1 egg yolk. Mix well and refill the pastry bag.
• Get a pastry bag with a large start tip or a cookie spritz and fill it with the dough and start piping. It’s best to use a cloth pastry bag as this kind of dough is pretty hard to pipe. If you’re using a plastic bag there’s a big chance it’ll break.
• Decorate cookies to your preference: with candied cherries, whole almonds or even chocolate “kisses”.
• Bake in a preheated to 350F oven for about 15 minutes. Let cool before serving or decorating further.
• If you want to make a sandwich cookie, spread jam, chocolate or nutella over the bottom of one cookie and “glue” it to the other one.