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Butter Cookies for Mary

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I met my friend Mary on the very first day of college. She is one of the smartest, funniest people I know. A savvy foodie, she and I spent some good times cooking and eating our way through New York City in our younger days.

Yesterday, she emailed me and asked for, “that cookie recipe with almond flour and butter.” Well, that would cover a couple dozen of my recipes. After a bit of email back and forth, we narrowed it down to one of the recipes I had concocted a few years ago, when I still lived in New York. Here it is, Mary.

Butter Cookies
2 ½ cups blanched almond flour
½ teaspoon celtic sea salt
½ cup salted butter, cut into pieces
¼ cup agave nectar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract

  1. In a food processor, place almond flour and salt and pulse briefly
  2. Add butter, agave and vanilla and pulse until ingredients are well blended
  3. Separate dough into 2 balls and place each on a piece of parchment paper
  4. Cover each ball of dough with another piece of parchment and roll out to ⅛ inch thickness
  5. Place in freezer for 30 minutes
  6. Using a 2 inch round cookie cutter (or the top of a 2 inch wide jelly jar) cut out cookies*
  7. Bake at 350° for 5-7 minutes
  8. Cool and serve

Makes 24 cookies

* if dough becomes too soft to work with, roll it out again between the 2 pieces of parchment and return to freezer for 10 minutes


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Posted on February 27, 2007 in desserts by Elana
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4 comments for the post “Butter Cookies for Mary”

  1. ian said:
    ian

    hi elana, I love the simplicity of this recipe. I’d like to make but without the butter. any reccommendations?

    thanks!


    July 5th, 2008 10:40 am
  2. elana said:
    elana

    Ian,

    You could try experimenting and reformulating the recipe without butter perhaps using grapeseed oil, that is a very good butter substitute.

    Elana


    July 7th, 2008 8:46 pm
  3. Ian said:
    Ian

    k, great, thanks for the reply. what baout using a different kind of flour aside from almond?


    July 9th, 2008 7:12 am
  4. elana said:
    elana

    Ian,

    This is indeed a frequently asked question from my readers. The answer to this question and many others can be found on my FAQs page.

    Elana


    July 9th, 2008 11:08 am

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