Shaped Butter Cookies

Recipe from my ex-colleague, Jessica.

Ingredients
200g plain flour
100g cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes
80g icing sugar
1 egg yolk

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 150 deg celcius.
2. Mix flour and icing sugar well.
3. Rub butter, flour, icing sugar until mixture resembles bread crumbs.
4. Add egg yolk and knead until it forms a dough.
5. Roll out dough until 3mm thickness.
6. Cut out shape and place on baking paper.
7. Bake at 150 degrees for 12mins. The cookies will appear pale and not golden brown,
8. Cool on rack immediately after taken out of oven.
9. Store in airtight container.

Note:
There is no need to knead the dough excessively, if not cookies will turn out hard.
You can use 2 tbsp of plain flour for dusting to prevent sticking. Or, you can roll the dough between two pieces of baking paper before cutting with a mould.
Add more flour if dough is too sticky.