Italian Christmas Butter Cookies | Traditional Recipe | Easy Christmas Recipe

This traditional Christmas Italian Butter Cookie recipe is perfect for your Christmas cookie tray. The homemade butter cookies are somewhat moist (not hard and dry), buttery and crumbly with a variety of decorating that’s easy and fun to make with basic ingredients. Plus, you can get creative by dipping them in chocolate, adding nuts, jam, candied cherries, colored sprinkles, or keep them plain because they’re simply delicious either way! Buon Appetito!
Makes: 50 cookies

Ingredients:

For the dough:

- 1 cup (226 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature

- 2/3 cup (130 grams) granulated sugar

- 2 egg yolks, room temperature

- 2 teaspoons (9.86 ml) vanilla extract

- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract

- 2 1/4 cups (280 grams) all purpose flour, spooned and leveled

- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

- Pinch of salt
Ingredients for decorating cookie options (quantities will vary depending on how you decorate):

- Candied cherries

- Powdered sugar

- Dark chocolate (for melting)

- White chocolate (for melting)

- Dark chocolate chips

- Nutella

- Raspberry jam

- Colored Christmas sprinkles

- Chopped pistachio

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