Vanilla Brown Sugar Cookies

Vanilla Brown Sugar Cookies

1. After sifting the low-gluten flour, add powdered sugar, salt and vanilla extract. Cut the butter into small pieces and pour into the flour. Grasp the butter and flour with your hands, so that the butter and flour are gradually mixed. When the dough is not completely mixed, the whole dough will feel very dry, and you will keep scratching, kneading and kneading. When the butter and flour are completely fused together, the dough will appear moist. Knead until the dry flour is completely invisible, and it becomes the dough as shown in the picture. Put the kneaded dough on the countertop and knead it into a cylindrical strip with a diameter of 3cm

2. Sprinkle coarse granulated sugar on the countertop, roll the dough on the coarse granulated sugar, so that the surface of the dough is evenly covered with a layer of coarse granulated sugar. Wrap the dough with plastic wrap, put it in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator, and freeze for 30 minutes to 1 hour. Frozen until the dough becomes hard, take it out and cut it into 0.8cm-1cm thick round pieces with a knife. Place the wafer on the baking sheet lined with greased paper on the cross-sectional surface upward. Leave enough space between each disc. Put the baking pan into the middle layer of the preheated oven with a high heat of 180°C and a lower heat of 160°C, and bake for about 13 minutes until the surface is golden brown. Fire up and down at 170℃, adjust the position of the bakeware in the oven according to the actual situation)

Tips:

1. If you don't use vanilla extract, you can use 1/4 vanilla bean pod, cut the vanilla seeds into the flour. You can also omit vanilla extract to make original biscuits;
2. When making this biscuit, the butter does not need to be softened, or only slightly softened. When mixing the diced butter with the flour, use your fingers to pinch the diced butter to make it fully mixed with the flour. Similar to the method of making sweet pastry pie crust. It may take some time to mix butter and flour, so don’t worry.
3. The dough can be sliced after being frozen to a sufficient hardness. If you freeze the dough for too long and the dough is too hard, you may not be able to cut it. At this time, the dough can be slightly melted at room temperature and then cut.