German potato cookies are incredibly soft, crumbly, and melt-in-your-mouth eggless texture. Just like the almond cookies and green pea cookies, you’ll only need to mix all the ingredients, shape and bake them. Though it might sound so easy and does not look at all fancy, the taste is never jeopardized as these cookies are dangerously addictive. They are crumbly and once you have them in your mouth, they just melt!

As to why they are called explicitly German cookies, no one knows. Typical German butter cookies do not contain any starch. The cookies could be celebrating the German’s pragmatic attitude. With only simple ingredients such as flour, butter, sugar and just a fork for making the pattern, the result is a batch of highly tasty cookies.

Butter is needed in this recipe to impart the flaky consistency. The higher the quality of the butter, the better the taste of these cookies will be. As butter is made from churning milk or cream, high-quality butter should only contain milk fat and no other plant-derived fats like palm oil or vegetable oil. Generally, commercial butter contains 80 – 82% milk fat while the rest is water and a tiny amount of milk solids.