- 2 sticks of butter (room temperature) - 1 cup of sugar - 2 cups of flour (add more if needed) - 1 to 2 tablespoons of vanilla extract - 1 to 2 teaspoons of butter extract - 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of salt In a bowl, mix butter and sugar until creamy. Add your extracts and salt, mix well. Now, add your flour a little at a time and mix well. Refrigerate for an hour or two, then scoop your cookies onto a cookie sheet. This should make 16 to 24 cookies. Bake in the oven at 350°F for 10 to 15 minutes or until the cookie is golden brown on top. I like mine crunchy, but enjoy these Lunch Lady Butter Cookies for the win.
They are the standard! I can't stand those Dutch cookies in the can! They taste like uncooked flour, sugar and butter! Who is eating those cookies. Give me the lunch room butter cookies any day!
Imitation butter and nut flavoring in your vanilla cakes takes it to a whole nother level sometimes I'll put that shit in pancakes and waffles I mean Kroger has it from wicked cheep
I have been baking these cookies so long I can make them in my sleep...and I use the first the fingers to press them down with gloves on, that is how we do it in Chicago 😊
Hey, from Chi-town myself, living in Cali now. I fr don't remember butter cookies. Like at all. BUT, soon as he was done and I saw them, this taste came to my mouth. Like my tongue knew what's up before my brain even did 😂😂😂
@@Sumiya-lp8mm have you talked to them after seeing my comment? Alot of parents don't understand at the time but its very common. It's so much easier to get work done to graduate. I hope that is your kids case.
I remember back in the days I used to go and help the lunch lady and she would always give me them cookies and they were so delicious finger licking good. Big ups for all the lunch staff 👏🏾
What you talking about, those Peanut Butter Cookies were so absolutely full of favor and it just made you feel like you peeped thru a crack in Paradise. No other way to describe it. The cookies by themselves was enough to keep us at those schools.
I luv me some butter cookies it started in Chicago.The lunch room was right by my classroom so ever morning as I was going to class as a lil girl I wouldn’t even go to class until I got 1 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Love your "cowboy " gingerbread! My husband is long time cowboy fan. He had the privilege of watching them in the cotton bowl. This was before their stadium in irving.
In my 86 year old Better Homes and Gardens cookbook…….. those are esters spritz cookies. Sometimes I will press a cherry pie filling cherry in the middle !
I remember when they started to give breakfast in classroom and we got those paper pads for our desks. I always found joy in the rare chocolate mini wheats.
I made these last night, but with butter flavored shortening because we were out of butter. They were great, also I rolled them in sugar for another light layer of sweetness.
I am a lunch lady but now they call us lunch aides. We don’t do any more cooking everything comes in from a company we just prep it. I remember growing up the lunch ladies cooked and baked. Such different times now.
I made these vegan for my baby with dairy allergies. Major win and super on point! I’d probably use a little less sugar next time but they were most definitely on point! I added a little lemon extract and took them where I needed them to be. Thanks family!
As a wife of a baker and bakery owner and also member of a family of foodies, a great tip for baking thag makes a big difference: weigh all your ingredients on a food scale rather than using measuring cups! It’s faster and really gives the best results! I’m only saying this cus I had to hear my husband tell me to do it multiple times until I got out the scale and started actually doing it. It really is easier. Proffesional bakers do this for a reason 😊
@@mordeys Would have to find someone who worked in school cafeterias before "the big change" to what they have deemed healthier carbs. They still smell good cooking, but definitely not the same as in the 90s and early 2000s.
@@nannernose3133 ya i know... even when i was an elementary aid in the early 00's they were 'different '.. ya what i mean. Shorter not as flaky (thats not the right word but because flaky is horizontal these were soft flakes but vertical) and just sort of melted on your tongue. No real need to even chew them...oh now my mouths memory is drooling...
Those baked cookies that the lunch ladies made were Otis Spunkmeyer cookies. They used to come like the Toll House break apart cookies. Like 250 in a box.I used to be a lunch lady and had to make them every day.
my mom made these for us all the time & covered them in pink frosting that was so tasty, that one time she made for a picnic for the school & had to bring more because we kids ate most of them before they got off the school bus.
I got lunch detention almost every week. Sometimes up to 3/5 days weekly. I was NEVER deprived of lunch or given a "sack lunch". I've never even heard of it until now. I'm sorry for your loss. P.S. go to the bakery section of your local supermarket (price chopper, shop rite, Hannaford, etc.) and ask for a cookie. They'll literally give you one of these for free. I'm sorry I got these as a treat for being good, and you remember them from punishments.
Our lunch lady made some of the greatest food. I would trade my whole lunch for the custard pudding with a sprinkle of brown sugar on it or that no bake drop cookie. I also to this day have the schools corn bread recipe.
2 cups in a dry or liquid measuribg container is still 2 cups. They made the glass measuring cup with a spout so you can pour it out easier. Most liquid measuring glasses also leave a small space from the last measurement and the top so it won't easily spill like the "dry" measuring cup would. Also, you can swipe across the top of a dry measuring cup to even out the top. Something you don't have to do with a wet measuring cup
lol a cup is a cup doesn’t matter what you measure it in lol but I know there are some that will argue that you have to use dry measuring cups for dry and wet for liquids. Well get both out and measure 1 cup milk with the dry measuring cup and pour it into the liquid measuring cup and it’s the same and vice versa lol
my favorite cookie. my mom made them at Christmas. I would beg her for one from the oven. glad I'm not the only person who uses butter extract. been using it for years it really elevates the flavor.
I used to act up for in school suspension only because I had a crush on the coach supervising it. School staff was confused. Once he left I never had behavior issues or in school suspension again. 😂
Oh thank you so much I'm very excited. I do not eat eggs and now I have a wonderful delicious looking cookie recipe that does not have eggs oh thank you thank you thank you
- 2 sticks of butter (room temperature)
- 1 cup of sugar
- 2 cups of flour (add more if needed)
- 1 to 2 tablespoons of vanilla extract
- 1 to 2 teaspoons of butter extract
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of salt
In a bowl, mix butter and sugar until creamy. Add your extracts and salt, mix well. Now, add your flour a little at a time and mix well. Refrigerate for an hour or two, then scoop your cookies onto a cookie sheet. This should make 16 to 24 cookies. Bake in the oven at 350°F for 10 to 15 minutes or until the cookie is golden brown on top. I like mine crunchy, but enjoy these Lunch Lady Butter Cookies for the win.
I didn't hear you say butter extract. Never heard of that. Self rising flour I assume?
Where can I find butter extract?
I don't recall seeing it with other spices.😊
Did you mean 2 teaspoons of vanilla? 2 tablespoons is a massive amount
Love it!
Ok y'all, Butter extract is at Walmart & Amazon! But I hope you're making your own home brewed vanilla to use 2 Tbls. Of Vanilla extract? WoW!
I... am... telling... you...! There is no cookie in the world better than them lunchroom cookies!!!
Nothing!
👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽
Absolutely!!
Facts!
They are the standard! I can't stand those Dutch cookies in the can! They taste like uncooked flour, sugar and butter! Who is eating those cookies. Give me the lunch room butter cookies any day!
Right!
awe, was a lunch lady for a minute...best job ever..🧃
My granny was a lunchroom lady and I remember these cookies. Amazing.
You were blessed, unlimited lunches and the lunch itinerary for the month!
TYFS, I didn't know there was a " butter " extract 😮
shows and tells I'm not a Baker, but LOVE pastries
Gotta try this! Simple easy recipe 😋 ❤❤❤
Imitation butter and nut flavoring in your vanilla cakes takes it to a whole nother level sometimes I'll put that shit in pancakes and waffles I mean Kroger has it from wicked cheep
@@kaydaw24TY!!!😂
Same here😊
I have been baking these cookies so long I can make them in my sleep...and I use the first the fingers to press them down with gloves on, that is how we do it in Chicago 😊
Hold it down in Chicago. Don't let them take your city. Call down the Almighty over that City.
Hey, from Chi-town myself, living in Cali now. I fr don't remember butter cookies. Like at all. BUT, soon as he was done and I saw them, this taste came to my mouth. Like my tongue knew what's up before my brain even did 😂😂😂
When we ran the lunchroom.....The Food was Slamming... No tasteless cookies and watered down milk.
When you made these, do they tend to be chewy or crunchy?
@shioriryukaze crunchy and yet they melt in your mouth, you can never eat just one.
Am I the only person that didn’t know any thing about butter extract
And I would like to call myself a amateur cook
Yes you are
Nope you can going my gang lol news to us
May be.
Man, Chicago Public School butter cookies were bomb! I still make them today.
Yessss! And the pizza!...even those damn super donuts.
Ain’t nothin like em ❤❤❤❤
Oh no, not the lunch lady butter cookie recipe. Those are still the best cookies going 44 yrs later. Thanks for the recipe
We could smell the butter cookies over the entire neighborhood... 😋 😋 😋
I loved ISS . Only place I could concentrate and get work done.
😂
Good point
I truly believe this is why my sons were in there every week for doing basically nothing, they hated regular classrooms... Got class and homework done
I did In School Suspension for 7 years.😊
@@Sumiya-lp8mm have you talked to them after seeing my comment? Alot of parents don't understand at the time but its very common. It's so much easier to get work done to graduate. I hope that is your kids case.
I’m making a double batch of these tomorrow, Christmas Eve, for Hot Cocoa or coffee, and The Polar Express 🚂🎄
I had to leave a like for Thee Sacred Souls being played while talking about lunch ladies and whipping up childhood faves. Well done sir!
Butter cookies were a must back when I was in school
Man You Totally Took Me There. I Was The Head Baker In The Inner School District From 90 - 93 I Made Plenty Of These Cookies...
Those lunch lady cookies were absolutely FIRE!!!!
Thank u ..that butter extract ..powerful 😂
So good!
I remember back in the days I used to go and help the lunch lady and she would always give me them cookies and they were so delicious finger licking good. Big ups for all the lunch staff 👏🏾
Growing up in Chicago, IL I remember those cookies. ❤ them. Melt in your mouth.
Our lunch ladies made the BEST peanut butter cookies!
What you talking about, those Peanut Butter Cookies were so absolutely full of favor and it just made you feel like you peeped thru a crack in Paradise. No other way to describe it. The cookies by themselves was enough to keep us at those schools.
Someone is a COWBOY FAN!!! COWBOYS4LYFE!!!
I luv me some butter cookies it started in Chicago.The lunch room was right by my classroom so ever morning as I was going to class as a lil girl I wouldn’t even go to class until I got 1 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I loved the sack lunches
Fax
News now South Carolina. Love it.
Love your "cowboy " gingerbread!
My husband is long time cowboy fan.
He had the privilege of watching them in the cotton bowl.
This was before their stadium in irving.
In my 86 year old Better Homes and Gardens cookbook…….. those are esters spritz cookies. Sometimes I will press a cherry pie filling cherry in the middle !
I'm rocking with the Cowboys stuffed animal...too cute
Yes, those cookies were delicious. I wasn't in suspension but when we go on trips, we had sack lunches
Only Chicago school had them when I was younger. The best cookies ever. Hopefully this is the right recipe.
I remember when they started to give breakfast in classroom and we got those paper pads for our desks. I always found joy in the rare chocolate mini wheats.
Ah yes.
A trip down memory lane.
I might even make a bunch tonight and hide them from everyone so I can take them to work muwahahaha
Thanks!
Bad Boy Cookies… I likes dat🥠
I thought you were from Chicago until you said "sack lunches" lolol Yes, those cookies ARE still the best!
They look good.
Major shout out to all the lunch ladies of the 80's-90's! I got in good with all the lunch ladies and got teachers lunch😂
👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Yum!
Yep!! That’s why ISS had so many regulars - there were perks!!😄
Wow that's awesome how easy you make this recipe look amazing looking cookies 😋
I make these cookies every Christmas…..smaller and sprinkled with powder sugar……my family can’t wait for them !!
💪
Lol! Sounds like you spent some time in suspension! Voice of experience. ❤
I made these last night, but with butter flavored shortening because we were out of butter. They were great, also I rolled them in sugar for another light layer of sweetness.
Well how you know bout dem sack lunches? Sack lunch for da win.
My gramma was a lunch lady.
Those were the days ❤️
There is also a vanilla, butter, and nut extract…granny gave me a recipe for pound cakes using it…soooo yummy. ❤
Yes, the butter cookies!
Yes, I want it. Yum!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I wish I could replicate the gooey chocolate chip cookies my high school served. There was nothing as good as those cookies!
When I tell you, those cookies were the best to date that I’ve ever had! Nothing but magic, nothing but magic! Very nostalgic💯
Lunch ladies are made of unrelenting love
So you had ISS in the cafeteria and helped the lunch ladies cook? Heehee
🙂✨Earned 👍🏽✨Mine ✅✨👌🏽
I am a lunch lady but now they call us lunch aides. We don’t do any more cooking everything comes in from a company we just prep it. I remember growing up the lunch ladies cooked and baked. Such different times now.
I made these vegan for my baby with dairy allergies. Major win and super on point! I’d probably use a little less sugar next time but they were most definitely on point! I added a little lemon extract and took them where I needed them to be. Thanks family!
Thanks for sharing love your recipes
Dang! I missed out on these lunch lady Butter cookies. We didn't have anything like that. The mountain bars were where it was at in my school.
Yesss them cookies were the smacking
I love the peanut butter cookies!
I went to ISS a lot when I was a kid & we always went to lunch b4 everyone else so we actually got first dibs then we went back to the room & ate.
😊Lovely
As a wife of a baker and bakery owner and also member of a family of foodies, a great tip for baking thag makes a big difference: weigh all your ingredients on a food scale rather than using measuring cups! It’s faster and really gives the best results! I’m only saying this cus I had to hear my husband tell me to do it multiple times until I got out the scale and started actually doing it. It really is easier. Proffesional bakers do this for a reason 😊
Are you old enough that lunch lady yeast rolls were still the old recipe and tasted good? "We" need to make those.
Those buns were excellent!
Were is the recipe???
@@mordeys Would have to find someone who worked in school cafeterias before "the big change" to what they have deemed healthier carbs. They still smell good cooking, but definitely not the same as in the 90s and early 2000s.
@@nannernose3133 ya i know... even when i was an elementary aid in the early 00's they were 'different '.. ya what i mean. Shorter not as flaky (thats not the right word but because flaky is horizontal these were soft flakes but vertical) and just sort of melted on your tongue. No real need to even chew them...oh now my mouths memory is drooling...
Yes, I remember the yeast rolls. I always brought my lunch, but had some change so I could buy a couple of rolls and butter. Warm and delicious!
Those baked cookies that the lunch ladies made were Otis Spunkmeyer cookies. They used to come like the Toll House break apart cookies. Like 250 in a box.I used to be a lunch lady and had to make them every day.
Damn dude ....
They look 🔥!!!
my mom made these for us all the time & covered them in pink frosting that was so tasty, that one time she made for a picnic for the school & had to bring more because we kids ate most of them before they got off the school bus.
I got lunch detention almost every week. Sometimes up to 3/5 days weekly. I was NEVER deprived of lunch or given a "sack lunch". I've never even heard of it until now. I'm sorry for your loss.
P.S. go to the bakery section of your local supermarket (price chopper, shop rite, Hannaford, etc.) and ask for a cookie. They'll literally give you one of these for free. I'm sorry I got these as a treat for being good, and you remember them from punishments.
Wow sounds delicious!
Gonna try this on Friday. Thanks.
That butter extract is really good but I don't recall ever getting a butter cookie in an in-school suspension
needs his own food tv show
Our lunch lady made some of the greatest food. I would trade my whole lunch for the custard pudding with a sprinkle of brown sugar on it or that no bake drop cookie. I also to this day have the schools corn bread recipe.
oh yum ... would love to have that cornbread recipe if you'd consider posting it.!
Lmao my grandma worked in the cafeteria. I got 2 lunches where ever I was. RIP Grandma
FYI- you can absolutely melt your butter for easier mixing.
2 cups in a dry or liquid measuribg container is still 2 cups. They made the glass measuring cup with a spout so you can pour it out easier. Most liquid measuring glasses also leave a small space from the last measurement and the top so it won't easily spill like the "dry" measuring cup would.
Also, you can swipe across the top of a dry measuring cup to even out the top. Something you don't have to do with a wet measuring cup
lol a cup is a cup doesn’t matter what you measure it in lol but I know there are some that will argue that you have to use dry measuring cups for dry and wet for liquids. Well get both out and measure 1 cup milk with the dry measuring cup and pour it into the liquid measuring cup and it’s the same and vice versa lol
Butter cruch cookies yummy 😋
Our lunch ladies made peanut butter loaf candy it was worth its weight in gold. It was alot like the peanut filling of Reesus cups
The peanut butter chocolate square was the best
They look eeal good. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
As someone who spent immense amounts of time in - in school suspension I approve this message.
It's the music for me
Food should never be a consequence
my favorite cookie. my mom made them at Christmas. I would beg her for one from the oven. glad I'm not the only person who uses butter extract. been using it for years it really elevates the flavor.
Man I miss those
You get cookies if you're bad. Also a room away from everyone. That sounds good.
Can I Call You Rose playing in the background 😮❤
I'm going to make some with the kids
Dude just said he was a bad kid, without saying he was a bad kid.
Go Cowboys!
How bout dem cowboys
Cookies 🍪 look good
Looks yummy.
I used to act up for in school suspension only because I had a crush on the coach supervising it. School staff was confused. Once he left I never had behavior issues or in school suspension again. 😂
Looks yummy!!
I Can't Wait To Make Your Cookies .
❤
Mmmmm, the big, greasy, chocolate chip ones were the bomb!
Take the bottom of a pretty drinking glass & make a cool design on top!!
Oh thank you so much I'm very excited. I do not eat eggs and now I have a wonderful delicious looking cookie recipe that does not have eggs oh thank you thank you thank you
In jeffco Colo, there was a similar peanut butter cookie that was to die for.
Yaaassssss!