Easy Homemade Danish Butter Cookies
Easy butter cookies recipe, homemade with simple ingredients. These Danish cookie sandwiches are piped, filled with buttercream and dipped in melted chocolate. Crispy on the outside with a melt in your mouth texture.
Servings: 18 Cookies
Calories: 389kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter Unsalted, Room temperature
- ⅔ cup Granulated sugar
- 2 Egg yolks
- 1.5 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon Almond extract
- 2 cups All-purpose flour
- 2-4 tablespoon Milk Whole or 2%, Adjust quantity as needed
- 1.5 cups Buttercream icing
- 2 cups Chocolate chips Semisweet, Melted
- ½ cup Nuts Roughly chopped almonds, pecans, cashews, macadamia nuts or hazelnuts
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add egg yolks, vanilla extract, almond extract and mix until combined.
- Add the flour and mix until dough starts to become crumbly.
- Add 2 tablespoon milk and mix until the dough starts to come together.
- If the dough is still very crumbly, add more milk (1 teaspoon at a time) until you have a thick and sticky "buttercream-like" consistency.
- Fill a piping bag with dough and attach a large star tip or large round tip.
- Pipe the dough into 3 inch lines or rosettes on a cookie tray, lined with parchment paper.
- Chill in fridge for 30 minutes.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 15-16 minutes or until edges are firm and cookies are golden brown.
- Allow the cookies to cool completely in the tray ay room temperature.
- Then, remove from parchment paper.
- Enjoy as is or make cookie sandwiches.
- To make cookie sandwiches, spread a thin coating of icing on the flat side of a cookie and place another cookie on top of the icing (flat side down). Press gently to secure the two cookies together. Dip each cookie sandwich in a bowl of melted chocolate halfway. Place it on a baking tray, lined with wax paper or parchment paper and sprinkle chopped nuts on top before the chocolate hardens. Once the chocolate sets, remove from parchment paper and enjoy.
Notes
- Read all my tips above.
- Leftovers can be stored in a cookie jar at room temperature for up to 5 days.
Nutrition
Calories: 389kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 13g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 49mg | Sodium: 149mg | Potassium: 180mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 26g | Vitamin A: 349IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 74mg | Iron: 1mg