Vanilla Bean Danish Butter Cookie Recipe - 29 tasty and delicious cookie recipes (2024)

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I love traditions, especially during the holidays. Do you remember those tin’s of danish cookies? I remember them! A pretty traditional holiday treat! And while I don’t buy them (my rule about making the sweets I eat) sometimes I crave that buttery crunch. They had quite a few different shapes, but I always liked the wreaths, so when I decided to make my own homemade danish butter cookies making the wreath shape was an easy choice.

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And rather than just use vanilla I decided to go with vanilla beans, same great flavor, with a beautiful speckled look that can’t be beat! And the SCENT! Seriously I die, these cookies are OH so good! Vanilla, Butter, a sweet crunch… does it GET any better? OH YEAH, it’s one of the most simple recipes you’ll ever make, like literally, just toss it ALL in at the same time, mix it up, pipe and bake! Taking the time to chill between shaping and baking will help it not fall as much, but you can skip if it you are in a hurry.

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Vanilla Bean Danish Butter Cookie Recipe

These danish butter cookies are easy to make and taste amazing!

4.75 from 4 votes

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Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes minutes

Servings: 40 cookies

Calories: 86kcal

Author: Ashlee Marie

Ingredients

  • 1 lrg egg
  • 1 lrg egg yolk
  • 1 C butter
  • 1 ¼ C powdered sugar
  • 2 ½ C all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp vanilla bean paste

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Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 400

  • mix everything with a paddle attachment at the lowest possible speed

  • pip with a star tip into wreaths on parchment paper

  • Refrigerate to help hold the shape at least 10 mins

  • cook 8-10 mins, the edges will become golden

Nutrition

Calories: 86kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 0g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 12mg | Sodium: 40mg | Potassium: 9mg | Fiber: 0g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 140IU | Calcium: 3mg | Iron: 0.4mg

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I mean seriously, aren’t they pretty!Now tell me what YOUR favorite cookie is? Every year I make my favorites (it wouldn’t be the holidays without those, right) BUT I also make sure to make a handful of NEW recipes every year! What is your “can’t live without” cookie!

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  1. Alli @ Cupcake Diaries

    These look like they came straight out of the tin. So fancy and fun!

    Reply

    • Ashlee

      awww thank you so much!

  2. Kara

    These look beautiful, and I bet they taste a hundred times better than the ones in the tins. Homemade is always better!

    Reply

  3. Jessica

    Hi Ashlee! Do you soften the butter?

    Reply

  4. Jody

    can you use vanilla instead of vanilla bean paste, if so how much

    Reply

    • Ashlee

      yes, but you won’t get the pretty speckles – it’s a 1:1 ratio, bean past to extract

  5. Emily

    How many cookies will this recipe make?

    Reply

    • Ashlee

      ummm honestly I don’t remember! I wanna say like 30 – pretty typical batch

    • Star

      Hi how many cookies do the recipe mack ??

    • Ashlee Marie

      depending on the size of the cookies 30-40

  6. paula frantz

    Do you soften butter

    Reply

    • Ashlee Marie

      yes soften the butter!

  7. Denise Knox

    Cookie dough to thick too pipe through bag?

    Reply

    • Ashlee

      nope, it pipes just fine, that’s how you get the shape.

    • Talayna

      It doesn’t pipe just fine, the dough is way too thick. Every recipe I look at is the same. So unless you are all superwomen, I think you are all lying because this is not easy. I threw away my first batch of dough as I thought I did it wrong, and then quit halfway through piping the second batch because it is impossible. The Danish must be the strongest people in the world.

    • Ashlee Marie

      you can see in the video that it piped just fine – thick yes, but pipeable. you can add an extra egg – it might be your altitude it does funny things to recipes

  8. Renee

    Can the dough be frozen to bake at a later time?

    Reply

    • Ashlee Marie

      yup! just pipe them onto parchment paper and freeze

  9. Karrissa

    I have a few vanilla beans in my pantry, is it possible to scrape a couple pods and use straight from the source? Or would that be too concentrated? Gorgeous recipe, thanks for sharing!

    Reply

    • Ashlee Marie

      you totally can do it that way! it would be super delicious!

  10. Birna Alexande

    Can you freeze that cookie dough

    Reply

    • Ashlee Marie

      I’d pipe them into shapes then freeze them. but yes it should work just fine!

Vanilla Bean Danish Butter Cookie Recipe - 29 tasty and delicious cookie recipes (2024)

FAQs

What do overmixed cookies taste like? ›

Overmixing your batter can lead to runny cookies.

I mixed the batter more than I should have both during the creaming stage of the recipe and after adding the flour. As a result, the cookies came out light and airy, and I was able to taste the butter more prominently in this batch than in others.

What is a famous Denmark cookie? ›

Butter cookies, also known as Danish butter cookies, are cookies originating in Denmark consisting of butter, flour, and sugar. They are similar to shortbread cookies. The butter cookie is often categorized as a "crisp cookie" due to its texture, caused in part by the quantity of butter and sugar.

Do danish butter cookies taste different? ›

No, they don't all taste the same. They all have a similar taste in that they are butter cookies, but there are several different subtle varieties and flavors. Some have sugar sprinkles on the top, some have a faint coconut flavor, some taste like traditional shorbread.

Why can I taste the flour in my cookies? ›

Improper flour measurement is the #1 cause of your cookie dough being too dry or the cookies tasting like flour.

What makes cookies fluffy and not flat? ›

Room temperature butter is just the right consistency to incorporate air when it's creamed with sugar. These trapped air pockets result in risen, fluffy cookies. If the butter is any warmer, it won't incorporate enough air and your cookies will have less rise.

Who makes the original Danish butter cookies? ›

Royal Dansk (meaning "Royal Danish") is a Danish brand of butter cookies, manufactured by Kelsen Group A/S. It is known for its distinctive royal blue round tin container.

What is the number one cookie in the world? ›

Oreo is the best-selling cookie in the world. It is now sold in over 100 countries. Oreo was first produced in 1912 by the National Biscuit Company, now known as Na-Bis-Co.

What is the oldest cookie in the world? ›

Pizzelles are the oldest known cookie and originated in the mid-section of Italy. They were made many years ago for the “Festival of the Snakes” also known as the “Feast Day of San Domenico”.

What makes Danish butter so good? ›

Crafted with 85% butter fat for a richer taste and texture, Danish Creamery European Style Butter performs flawlessly in baking applications. Bake your fluffiest biscuits, your flakiest pie crusts, your butteriest cakes and pastries with this, our creamiest butter yet.

Why are Danish cookies in a tin? ›

In order to maintain their freshness, the Danish cookies were packed in a distinctive blue tin showing the old Danish farmhouse named “Hjemstavnsgaard” from the island of Funen.

Why are Royal Dansk cookies so good? ›

True to our Danish tradition of baking excellence, we don't compromise on quality. We use no artificial ingredients, added preservatives, or colors. These carefully crafted Danish delicacies are the perfect balance of buttery and crisp.

What happens when you add extra flour to cookies? ›

Check Your Cookie Dough's Consistency

Tough – For rolled cookies, your dough can become “tough” by adding too much flour to your pin or counter before rolling it out.

What happens when not enough flour in cookies? ›

As a bonus, I did a little research to find out just what role each ingredient plays in chocolate chip cookies, so you can adjust your recipe however you feel like experimenting. Flour adds fluff and texture to the cookies. Adding too little flour can cause cookies to be flat, greasy, and crispy.

What makes cookies flat and crispy? ›

Melted butter – To achieve thin and crisp cookies, I've discovered that melted butter is really crucial. Melted butter helps the cookies to spread out and become flatter with crisp edges.

What happens if you over beat cookies? ›

"Overmixing your dough will result in flatter, crispier cookies," Cowan said. If you overmix, you will end up aerating (adding air to) the dough, which causes the cookies to rise and then fall, leaving you with flat cookies.

How to tell if dough is overmixed? ›

If you end up over-mixing or -kneading, you'll notice that your dough flops around when you try to stretch it and feels extremely tight and "bouncy." Over-kneading is common when using a stand mixer to mix your ingredients, so it's especially important to keep an eye on your dough if you aren't hand-kneading it.

How do you fix overmixed cookies? ›

Overmixing the dough

If you overmix the dough, the cookies will be dry and crumbly. The best way to fix this is to add more liquid to the dough. This can be done by adding milk, water, or even melted butter. You may also need to add more flour to the dough if it is too wet.

What does overworking cookie dough do? ›

Overmixing the dough: Overmixing can lead to tough and dense cookies. It's essential to mix the ingredients just until they come together to avoid developing too much gluten. 2. Incorrect oven temperature: Baking cookies at the wrong temperature can result in uneven baking.

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