Greek Butter Cookies Kourambiedes - butter

Method

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• With an electric mixer, whip the butter until creamy.
• Add the egg, vanilla extract, baking powder, sugar and nuts.
• Mix thoroughly.
• Add the flour until the dough becomes too stiff to beat with a mixer.
• By hand, add flour and knead until dough is smooth and rolls off your fingers without sticking.
• Roll the dough out by hand into a cylinder roughly one inch in diameter and eight inches long.
• Cut diagonally into one-and-a-half-inch pieces.
• Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the bottoms of the cookies are golden brown.
• Let the cookies cool and sprinkle them generously with confectioners' sugar.