French Butter Sand Cookie Recipe

This used to be a favorite of mine when I was little and had Saturdays off to bake with my mother. Now, I want to share it with the rest of you :) 

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees Farenheit, grease the cookie sheet with either butter or pam. 

You need: 

1/2 pound of butter (ie. 2 bars)

3/4 cup sugar--mix brown (6 tbs) and white sugar

2 egg yolks

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/8 tsp salt

2 cups flour

Make sure you add cream (mixed butter, yolk, vanilla, and salt) and sugar before mixing in the flour. 

THis is a heavy cookie dough so roll the dough into balls the size of marbles. Place the rolled dough onto cookie sheet and press the tines of the fork into the dough in a criss cross pattern or make funny faces on it just like you see in the picture. It may be a bit tough because it can get sticky. If it's too sticky, add just a little bit more flour and mix more. Bake the dough for no more than 10 minutes or until the cookies turn a darker shade of tan. Cool and sprinkle with confectionary sugar or leave as is. There you go!