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🍪🎄 These are my MOST popular cookies!

Every Christmas, I make at least 500 of these cookies, and they vanish faster than I can bake them. It’s one of those beautifully simple recipes — nothing fancy, nothing complicated — yet the flavor is unforgettable. Soft, buttery, sweet, and absolutely irresistible.

If you want a cookie that everyone asks for every holiday season… this is it.

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✨🍪 The Ultimate Holiday Butter Cookies

Perfect for gifting, sharing, holiday trays, and late-night nibbling.
These cookies are soft, melt-in-your-mouth delicious, and wonderfully classic. They taste like something your grandmother would bake — comforting, simple, and full of love.

📜 A Little History Behind These Cookies

Butter cookies go back many generations.
In Europe — especially in Germany, Denmark, and Austria — families baked huge batches of buttery cookies during the holidays to serve guests and give as gifts.
The tradition spread, and soon these cookies became a staple of every Christmas table.

My own version comes from an old handwritten family recipe card — passed down for years and perfected through hundreds of batches.

🧡 How This Recipe Was Formed (Evolution of the Cookie)

Originally, these cookies were simple butter–sugar–flour treats.
But over time, little improvements perfected them:

adding vanilla for warmth
chilling the dough for better shape
using real butter for softness
baking low and slow for perfect edges

The result?
A cookie that’s crisp on the outside, soft on the inside… and unbelievably delicious.

🧂 INGREDIENTS (Makes About 24–30 Cookies)

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt

Optional upgrades:

sprinkles
melted chocolate
powdered sugar
almond extract (½ teaspoon)

🍳 METHOD & STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cream the Butter & Sugar

Using a mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
This is what gives the cookies their melt-in-your-mouth texture.

2. Add Egg & Vanilla

Mix until smooth and creamy.

3. Add Dry Ingredients

Sift ﬂour, baking powder, and salt together.
Add slowly to the wet ingredients until a soft dough forms.

4. Chill the Dough

Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
This keeps the cookies from spreading too much.

5. Shape the Cookies

Roll into balls, flatten slightly, or press with a fork.
Top with sprinkles if desired.

6. Bake

Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 10–12 minutes
— just until the edges are slightly golden.

7. Cool & Enjoy

Let them cool on a rack.
(They taste EVEN BETTER the next day!)

😍 FOR THE COOKIE LOVERS

These cookies are for you if you love:
🍪 Soft, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth treats
🎄 Classic holiday flavors
✨ Simple recipes with BIG results
🧡 Old-fashioned baking
🔥 Perfect Christmas cookie trays
🍫 Easy decorating and gifting
💛 Cookies that NEVER last long in the house

If you’re a true cookie lover — this recipe will become a yearly tradition.

🎉 CONCLUSION

These holiday butter cookies prove once again that the simplest recipes are often the most loved.
No complicated steps… no fancy equipment… just pure, nostalgic, buttery goodness.

It’s no wonder I bake 500 of them every Christmas — and it’s no wonder they disappear instantly!

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