Butter Cookies

Ingredients

175g unsalted (sweet) butter @ room temperature - diced

90g golden caster sugar

250g plain flour

demerara (raw) sugar for coating

Method

1. Put butter n sugar in a bowl n beat until light n fluffy. Add flour, using hands gradually work it in until the mixture forms a smooth dough.
2. Roll into a sausage shape about 30 cm long, pat the sides flat to form either a square or triangular log.
3. Sprinkle thick layer of demarara sugar on a piece of grease proof (waxed) paper. Press each side of the dough into the sugar to coat. Wrap n chill for 30 mins until firm.
4. Preheat oven to 160ºC or 325ºF
5. When ready to bake, remove the dough n unwrap. Cut into thick slices n place slightly apart on a non-stick baking sheet.
6. Bake for 20 mins until just beginning to brown.
7. Transfer to wire rack to cool

Do not chill for too long else become too hard and difficult to cut. Also the cookies taste better the next day. They taste like those danish butter cookies, the one that is square in shape with sugar coated.