Perhaps the simplest baked cookie recipe ever is for butter cookies baked in an air fryer. Four ingredients, quick bake, no need to preheat the oven, and instant preparation.
HOW TO USE AN AIR FRYER TO BAKE BUTTER COOKIES
- sugar:The nicest sugars are soft brown or white.
- butter:Make careful you use unsalted butter of high quality. The flavour of the cookies comes from the butter, so make sure you use plenty of it (and definitely don’t use margarine or vegetable oil spread!
- Ground almonds: these give the cookies a lighter texture and more nutrients.
- flour for all purposes.
I adore the simplicity of basic butter cookies, but if you’d like, you may add additional ingredients as well. Some ideas are as follows: - A quarter of a cup of chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup of walnuts, chopped
- two tablespoons of candied ginger, chopped
- Two tablespoons of white chocolate chips and two
- tablespoons of chopped dried cranberries
- Half a teaspoon of zest from lemons
Directions:
Step 1: Grease or line a baking sheet or pan with parchment or baking paper.
Step 2: Beat the sugar and butter together until they are frothy and light. Usually, I accomplish this using a mixer. While the traditional method also works well, it may need a significant amount of work to achieve a fluffy consistency. This is a crucial step since it determines the cookie’s texture because of how light you can make the butter and sugar.
Step 3: Add the ground almonds and sift the flour into the creamed mixture. Work until thoroughly mixed.
Step 4: The dough should be chilled for at least 20 minutes. This stage is crucial to guarantee that the cookies maintain their shape during cooking and to make the dough easier to work with in the following step.
Step 5: Preheat the air fryer to 320°F, or 160°C. While not strictly necessary for all air fryers, you really want the air fryer to be hot when you add cookies so they don’t begin to spread before the air fryer reaches temperature.
Step 6: Remove the dough from the fridge and roll it out on a lightly floured board to a thickness of 1/2 inch. Cut the cookies with a cookie cutter, rerolling the dough as necessary to use it all.
Step7: Transfer cookies to pan or baking sheet that has been ready. Place the baking pan into the air fryer basket with caution. The butter cookies should be air-fried for 8 to 12 minutes, or until they are pale golden. Cook any leftover dough in divided halves.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup softened butter
- one-fourth cup sugar
- 1/4 cup of almonds, ground
- One cup of flour for all purpose
Directions:
- Grease or line a pan or baking sheet with parchment paper to prepare it.
- Beat together butter and sugar till frothy and light.
- Add the ground almonds and sift the all-purpose
- flour into the creamed mixture.
- Work until thoroughly mixed.
- Dough should be chilled for 20 minutes.
- Preheat the air fryer to 320°F, or 160°C.
- Roll out to a thickness of 1/2 inch on a surface dusted with flour.
- Cut the cookies with a cookie cutter, rerolling the dough as necessary to finish them.
- Line a pan or baking sheet with cookies.
Place the baking pan into the air fryer basket with caution. - The butter cookies should be air-fried for 8 to 12 minutes, or until they are pale golden.
- Any leftover dough can be frozen for later use or cooked in batches.
Storing:
- The baked cookies should keep fresh for up to a week if stored in an airtight container.
- Uncooked dough can be kept in the freezer. Cut the dough into cookies after rolling it. Once they are solidly frozen, place them in a freezer bag and freeze again on a cookie sheet.
- Bowl
- Cookies Cuttter
- Wooden spoon
- Kitchen Towl
- Aluminum Foil
- strainer silicon
- Air fryer
- Air Tight Container
- Serving Dish
- spectula
- Baking sheet