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The best Danish butter cookies! These Danish cookies are buttery, rich in milky and creamy flavors. This easy Danish butter cookie recipe is fail-proof.
Danish Cookies
Everyone loves those buttery, crispy and addictive Danish butter cookies in tin. They are my favorite butter cookies ever!
This Danish butter cookies recipe is absolutely the best and you have to try baking them!
Danish Butter Cookies Recipe
This recipe calls for only six (6) basic ingredients that you already have at home:
- Unsalted butter. Use a high quality butter such as Challenge brand (USA)
- Fine sugar
- Powdered sugar
- Cake flour
- Salt
- Heavy whipping cream
The method is very straight forward and novice baker friendly. The recipe is also fail-proof.
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients.
Secret Ingredient For The Best Danish Butter Cookies
The secret ingredient is heavy whipping cream. The whipping cream lends intense milky aroma and creamy flavor to the cookies.
For the flour, cake flour makes the cookies crispier with perfect texture.
The cookies taste just like Royal Dansk Danish Butter Cookies in blue tin that we all love so much!
Every bite transports you to cookies heaven!
How To Make Danish Cookies
The method is so simple and involves three (3) easy steps.
First, cream the butter, sugar and salt until light and fluffy.
Next, add in the heavy whipping cream in 3 portion.
Add the cake flour to the butter mixture to form the cookie dough.
Pipe the dough using a star nozzle. Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, you can use salted butter. Just skip the salt if you use salted butter.
Yes, you can use all-purpose flour.
For rich, creamy and milky flavors, I strongly recommend using heavy whipping cream. You may use regular whipping cream.
If you are using milk, I suggest you use full milk.
Each cookie is 45 calories.
What To Serve With Danish Butter Cookies
These cookies are great for holidays such as Christmas, Chinese New Year, etc. For an array of festive baking, I recommend the following recipes.
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Danish Butter Cookies
Ingredients
- 125 g (4oz) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 35 g (1¼ oz) powdered sugar
- 35 g (1¼ oz) fine sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 100 ml heavy whipping cream
- 180 g (6¼ oz) cake flour, sifted
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (356°F). In a bowl, mix together the butter, powdered sugar, fine sugar, and salt. Then whisk until well combined and fluffy.
- Gradually add the whipping cream in 3 portions, beating on low speed after each addition.
- Add the cake flour to the butter mixture and mix well. Then, pour the mixture into a piping bag fitted with a star piping tip.
- Pipe the batter onto a lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the edges turn slightly brown. Do not overbake. Let cool and store in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Please give ingredients by volume rather than metric weight.
I don’t have volume weight. It’s not precise. Everyone 1 cup of flour will weight differently. You need a scale for proper baking.
Good God Bee
Such a simple recipe makes such a delightful biscuit.
As usual another top notch recipe from you.
we highly recommend it. thank you.
Yes, it’s very very good, just a few ingredients. Thanks for trying!
Can you please give me the concersion for the Danish Butter Cookies
Thank you
Rosalie
INGREDIENTS
125 g (4.4 oz) unsalted butter, room temperature
35 g (1.2 oz) powdered sugar
35 g (1.2 oz) fine sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
100 ml heavy whipping cream
180 g (6.3 oz) cake flour, sifted
I have no conversion for cups. Please use a scale. A reader converted to cups in the Comments section but for the best results, you need to weight the ingredients.
Can you send me the ingredientes by tablespoons or cups?
Sorry I don’t have cup measurement. But there is a reader who converted in the comments section. Please check.
Use plain English measurements for recipe, not metric. I’m not from a foreign country.
What is English measurement if not metric? I provide both imperial and metric measurement.
How many cups of whipped cream is 100 ml
Thank you
Please measure 100 ml. Cup is not precise.
1. Did you mean skip the salt if you’re using SALTED butter (not unsalted butter like it says in the recipe)?
2. What do you use to incorporate all the ingredients? A hand whisk, a stand mixer? Can I use a hand mixer?
1) Yes, sorry. It was a typo. I have updated it.
2) You can use an electronic hand mixer or just a regular whisk.
Sorry that some Americans are so stupid. All they have to do is google a metric conversion chart. We do use cups, tablespoons, etc. here in America but we shouldn’t expect the rest of the world to do the same. smh
I have a global audience so I make both imperial and metric measurements available. Also please take note that measuring cups in different parts of the world are different in size, for example: Australian measuring cups vs. US measuring cups. For baking, cup measurements are just not ideal. Scale is the way to go and the price is the same as a cheap scale!
Like the rest of the world cares.
Hi Tonya
I think I can help you I did all the measurements on the scaIe, then I put it in a measuring cup and this is what I got. I made the cookies with these measurements and they came out good.They could of used a little more sugar for me. I hope this helps you.
INGREDIENTS
1 1/3 stick of salted butter, room temperature
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1/3 cup fine sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1 1/2 cup cake flour or flour, sifted
I retrieved this site last year, didnt have time until now to copy and make these recipes until now. Love cooking and making Asian dishes and desserts. So excited to get started so I can deliver to shut in Church members. Thanks so much. Will let you know how they turn out. Peace and Joy I feel.
i think you meant to say if you you use salted butter, skip the salt…
ps love your blog, always such tasty ideas and recipes
Yes it was a typo I fixed it. Thanks!
Why not publish your recipe using more common units used in the US. i.e. cups, tsp, tbl, spoons. Life is too short to convert all this.
Hi Bob – I don’t recommend cup measurement for this recipe because it’s just not precise and this is such a PERFECT recipe. If you measure it by cups, the potential difference in the weight can be tens of grams, which will throw the entire ratio off. You ought to have a scale if you are a serious baker.
Best
Hello, can I use a cookie press for these or is the dough too firm?
You can try to use cookie press but the dough is too soft.
Good