Preheat oven to 170°C.

Beat butter. Gradually add sugar into butter. Cream butter with sugar to incorporate.

Then stir in the flour.

Bake at preheated oven for 10-15 minutes. Depending on the size of your cookies.

For Vanilla Cookies: Add about 1½ teaspoon of vanilla extract (lesser for vanilla essence) into the creamed butter and sugar before adding in the flour.

For Chocolate Chip Cookies: Add 25 grams of chocolate chips to the creamed butter and sugar before adding in the flour.

You can play around with different flavours. You can just add nothing else and have a simple butter cookie.