Flooded Butter Cookies

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By starting with chilled butter, pastry cook Tiffany MacIsaac of Birch and Barley makes a dough that tin beryllium baked close away. If your room is warm, though, it's champion to refrigerate the dough for 20 minutes earlier cutting it into shapes for baking.

The dough tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 3 days oregon frozen for up to 1 month. Undecorated cookies tin beryllium frozen for up to 1 month. Decorated cookies tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for up to 10 days.

Adapted from Tiffany MacIsaac, pastry cook astatine Birch & Barley successful Northwest Washington.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 2.5-3 dozen

For the cookies

3 1/2 cups to 4 cups flour, positive much for rolling
1 1/4 cups positive 1 tablespoonful sugar
Generous 1/4 spoon salt
15 tablespoons (1 instrumentality positive 7 tablespoons) chilled unsalted butter, chopped into tiny dice
3 tablespoons pick cheese, astatine country temperature, positive much arsenic needed
1/2 spoon vanilla extract

For the icing

4 cups confectioners' sugar, positive much arsenic needed
4 ample ovum whites, preferably from pasteurized eggs specified arsenic Davidson’s brand
Food colour paste oregon liquid

Nutritional Facts

Per decorated cooky (based connected 36)

Calories
164
Fat
5 g
Saturated Fat
4 g
Carbohydrates
28 g
Sodium
26 mg
Cholesterol
14 mg
Protein
2 g
Sugar
18 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Tiffany MacIsaac, pastry cook astatine Birch & Barley successful Northwest Washington.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published December 8, 2009

Updated March 13, 2026