The Maxwell Family's

Vanilla Butter Cookies

This is Anna Marie’s favorite Christmas cookie recipe

from the Maxwell Family’s blog

December 2018 at Titus2.com

2 vanilla butter cookies on a Christmas napkin stamped with Rycraft cookie stamp #221 Sweet Hearts

Ingredients

1 Rycraft cookie stamp (shown above is #221 – Sweet Hearts)

1 cup butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. salt
2 cups flour

Method

Cream butter and sugar.

Maxwell girls mixing cookie dough before using their Rycraft cookie stamps

Add vanilla and mix well. Add salt and flour (1 cup at a time). Form 1-inch balls and roll in sugar.

Maxwell girls and Mom preparing to stamp balls of dough with Rycraft cookie stamps

Stamp with cookie stamp.

Maxwell girls stamping dough balls with Rycraft cookie stamps

Bake at 350° about 8 minutes or until edges are barely turning golden. Enjoy about 3 dozen cookies.

The Maxwell girls take cookie-stamped cookies out of the oven
Maxwell girls holding Rycraft cookie stamps