Sugar-Cookie Buttons

Name: Sugar-Cookie Buttons
Prep time: 55 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 2 stick unsalted butter; 1 c. sugar; 2 eggs; 2 tsp. vanilla; 3 c. all-purpose flour; 1/2 tsp. salt

By Cheryl SlocumPublished: Nov 1, 2012

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55 mins

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1 hr 30 mins

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These buttery delights are cute as, well, you know. Gather a stack together by threading ribbon through the buttonholes, and present the cookies in a perfectly sized papier-mâché box with a snowflake stenciled on the lid.

Papier-mâché boxes, $0.67 each; 4-inch D; consumercrafts.com. Snowflake stencils, $14.95 for three; theartfulstencil.com. Folk Art acrylic paint in Winter White, $1.59 for 2-ounch pot; plaidonline.com. Ribbon, $0.79 per yard; M&J Trimming, 800-965-8746.

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Directions

1. Step 1In a large bowl, using an electric mixer on high, beat butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Reduce mixer to medium, and beat in eggs, 1 at a time. Beat in vanilla. Reduce mixer to low, and beat in flour and salt until soft dough forms. Divide dough into 4 equal pieces and pat each into a disk. Wrap each disk tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
2. Step 2Roll out each disk between 2 sheets of well-floured parchment to 1/8-inch thickness. Transfer to a baking pan, wrap tightly with plastic wrap, and refrigerate, 30 to 60 minutes.
3. Step 3Remove and unwrap 2 dough disks. Use a well-floured 3-inch round cutter to cut out 12 cookies. Transfer to a parchment-lined baking pan, spacing cookies about 1 inch apart. To make each resemble a button: Using the blunt side of a 2 3/4-inch round cutter, indent a circle on the cookie's surface. Then, using a straw, poke 2 holes near the center of each cookie. Repeat with 2 remaining dough disks.
4. Step 4Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Meanwhile, refrigerate pans with cookies until chilled, about 15 minutes. Bake until cookies are golden around edges and firm, about 5 minutes. (If necessary, use a skewer to reopen buttonholes.) Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
5. Step 5To package, string a ribbon through a stack of 6 button cookies and tie before placing in box. Repeat with remaining cookies to fill 3 more boxes.