Secret Cookies

Name: Secret Cookies
Ingredients: 3/4 pound salted butter, softened; 1 3/4 cups sugar; 2 egg yolks; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 3 1/2 cups flour; Red, green or multi-colored sugar

6 ingredients

3 steps

Ingredients

3/4 pound salted butter, softened
1 3/4 cups sugar
2 egg yolks
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups flour
Red, green or multi-colored sugar

Directions

1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar. Add the yolks and vanilla, mixing well. Add the flour and combine thoroughly.
2

Use mounded teaspoonfuls and make balls of dough with your hands. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet, then flatten the dough with the bottom of a patterned glass dipped in colored sugar (don't mix the red and green!).
3

Bake for about 10 minutes (watch carefully as they burn easily), until the cookies are lightly golden just around the edges. Let the cookies rest on the baking sheets for a minute or two and then gently transfer to baking racks to cool -- they're fragile.