These butter cookies are melt in your mouth delicious, very similar to my un kurabiye recipe but this has egg yolks and instead of icing sugar, regular sugar is used.
I like to use my homemade freezer jam for this, but you can use your favourite store bought jam.
You can use any kind of chocolate you want, I use chocolate chips as I always have them.
What you will need:
- 1 cup softened unsalted butter
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 cups flour
Other ingredients needed:
- Chocolate chips
- Jam of your choice
- Sprinkles
- Coconut
- ground nuts if desired
I make this by hand in a big bowl, if you find the dough to be dry add some softened butter, margarine or shortening to make the dough soft, about a tablespoon worth. The dough shouldn’t be crumbly or hard.
Prepare a piping bag with tip 6B also known as a open star tip.
Fill a piping bag with some cookie dough and pipe small amounts on a baking sheet, I place a piece of parchment on the sheet. Pipe small amounts about a 1 inch in length, they do rise as they bake.
Bake at 350 for 8 to 10 minutes.
Cool and then sandwich with your favourite jam. If you don’t want to sandwich them you can dip each individual cookie in the melted chocolate.
Melt some chocolate chips in a double boiler or microwave if you have one (I don’t).
Add sprinkles in one bowl and coconut in another bowl, after you sandwiched your cookies dip the one end into the bowl of melted chocolate then quickly dip into the sprinkles, coconut and or nuts.
If you are not sandwiching your cookies, just dip each cookie into the chocolate and add the toppings.
