Do you have hungry mouths to feed? Yippee, then be prepared for an onslaught of the best Big Batch Butter Cookies!
These are a massive batch of creamy, fluffy and light butter cookies that will melt in your mouth.
Not sure if you’ve heard about these butter cookies before but you’re going to love them because basically they have 4 simple ingredients that yield the biggest batch of cookies you’ve ever seen! Then you simply add your own ingredients for fun and creativity!
This recipe is famous for being called the 100-cookie recipe because if makes heaps and heaps of cookies, like the hugest quantities! And trust me you won’t be disappointed as these will go around the whole family, friends, colleagues, neighbors and the list goes on and on!
I’ve put together some of my own creative ingredients that I personally love adding to the best big batch butter cookies, but feel free to make up your own or adjust mine. I hope you like them and find them inspirational!
So, without further ado here are my ideas for ingredients to help you get started, so let’s not waste another moment drooling and dreaming of eating these big batch butter cookies!
Butter cookie additional ingredients
Below are some of my fav’s to help and encourage you to get started. Or if you prefer you can make up your own concoction of ideas.
- Smarties
- Mini marshmallows and milk chocolate chunk
- Milk chocolate chunk
- Hundreds and thousands, jimmies or funfetti
- Peanut butter and dark chocolate chunk
- Berries, cherries and white chocolate
- Jaffa
- Milo
- Oatmeal and chocolate chip
- Fruit and nut
- Crushed cornflakes and chocolate chip
- White chocolate, apricots and coconut
- Jam
- Caramels
- Mint chocolate chip
Now you must be thinking what am I going to do with all these butter cookies? Well I took the liberty of offering some wonderful ideas.
What to do with all these big batch butter cookies?
Gifting – fill a cake or biscuit tin!
- Once the butter cookies are cooled, fill a cake tin (I purchased mine at a 2nd shop) or a biscuit/cake tin from your favorite store.
- Line a biscuit/cake tin with baking paper.
- Then simply fill the tin with the butter cookies.
- Attach a little note saying what each flavor each cookie is and then gift them.
- Gift them to a friend, neighbor, family or your work colleagues (trust me you’ll soon become everyone’s favorite work mate!).
Now onto some tasty dessert ideas!
Dessert ideas:
- Because these cookies are soft, creamy and almost resemble shortbread in texture they are perfect for turning them into ice cream sandwiches for a fun and easy dessert.
- Crumble the cookies over scoops of ice-cream with a hot fudge sauce.
- Serve them to your guests as an after-dinner treat (make some of your butter cookies with a smidge of peppermint flavor and a handful of dark chocolate chips) with a hot chocolate, a hot brewed coffee or a cup of tea.
Other helpful ideas:
- Sell them as a fundraiser for a cause that you believe in and love.
- Take them to a picnic or BBQ.
- Serve them as an afternoon tea with friends or family.
- Create a “Cookie and Milk” Bar.
Baking tips:
- Make sure you use a BIG Bowl to make this dough! Believe me you’ll need too, otherwise the flour will fly all over the room!
- Cream the butter and sugar mixture for about 2 minutes. This helps make the dough creamy and fluffy in texture.
- My preference is to sprinkle flaky salt over your cookies (Maldon Sea Salt Flakes) because it gives the cookie’s a flavor pop, but please omit/remove if you prefer.
- Keep in mind this is a huge batch of butter cookies so you will need to repeat the baking process until all your butter cookies are baked (unless of course you are freezing half your dough for another time). I did mine in 3 rounds in the oven.
- You can use a handheld beater to bake these big batch butter cookies, however, keep in mind you will need a big bowl to mix the cookie dough. I personally like to use my Kitchen Aid for this recipe as it comes with a huge bowl as part of the package.
- Add food color or flavor to mix it up! Here are a couple of combinations that go well together: green/peppermint, red or pink/strawberry and/or orange/orange.
- When using peanut butter in recipes I use standard peanut butter like Sanitarium’s Smooth Peanut Butter. This is because I find for baking some of the other brands are too high in oil content, which could make your cookies spread too much.
- Bake a big batch of butter cookies on a Sunday afternoon in time for the kids (and Hubby’s) lunchboxes.
Tips for freezing:
- You can freeze the uncooked dough for up to 3 months, make sure you roll them into balls on place in an airtight container in the freezer. When ready to use simply defrost to room temperature and bake them as per my baking instructions.
- You can freeze the baked cookies in an airtight container for approx. one month (that’s if the cookies make it that far)
- Your cookies will stay fresh for 4-5 days in the fridge.
Cookie sizes & shapes
- You can make these cookies into any shape you like by using cookie cutters in different shapes and sizes. Simply roll the cookie dough between 2 sheets of baking paper and then use a cookie cutter to cut out your desired shapes.
- If using different sizes or shapes, keep in mind that your baking time may vary, and you may need to increase time in the oven by 2-3 minutes on the bigger cookies.
- Weigh your dough balls on a scale (sounds like a sentence I never thought I’d ever say…haha). Do this so that each batch of butter cookies have a consistency in size, shape and weight.
- This big batch of butter cookies yielded me 48x cookies, however I make my cookies different sizes and shapes. If you decide to make each cookie all the same size, then it’s preferable you will yield a bigger batch of butter cookies.
Now it’s time to start baking!
My book Laying Gods Table has many more scrumptious cookie recipes for you to enjoy! Please click on link to get yourself a copy.
For ideas and tips on how to practice hospitality please read my blog post 5 tips for practicing Christian Hospitality. It will give you ways on how you too can demonstrate God’s love in action.
Believe it or not sharing a big batch of butter cookies with friends or family is sowing love, kindness and generosity.
If you have tried this recipe and like it please leave me a comment below. I would love to hear from you! xx
