Old Fashioned Butter Cookies with Butter Frosting

Name: Old Fashioned Butter Cookies with Butter Frosting
Prep time: 3 h 5 min
Cook time: 3 h 5 min
Total time: 3 h 5 min
Yield: 72
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; 237 milliliters butter, softened; 1 liters confectioners sugar, or more as needed; 1 egg; 9 Tbsps evaporated milk, or more as needed; 710 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoons salt; 2 Tbsps vanilla extract; 177 milliliters white sugar; 2 Tbsps whole milk

Old Fashioned Butter Cookies with Butter Frosting is a vegetarian recipe with 72 servings. One portion of this dish contains approximately 1g of protein, 3g of fat, and a total of 93 calories. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It works well as an inexpensive dessert. If you have sugar, salt, confectioners' sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 3 hours and 5 minutes.

Instructions

Beat 1 cup softened butter with white sugar in a large bowl until creamy. Beat egg, whole milk, and 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract into butter mixture until smooth.

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Vanilla Extract

Granulated Sugar

Whole Milk

Butter

Egg

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Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl and gradually stir dry ingredients into moist ingredients to make a smooth dough. Chill dough in refrigerator for 2 to 3 hours.

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Baking Powder

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Dust a pastry cloth or kitchen towel generously with flour.

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All Purpose Flour

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Oven

Divide dough into thirds and roll each third out 1/8-inch thick on the prepared pastry cloth.

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Dough

Roll

Cut shapes out of the rolled dough with cookie cutters.

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Dough

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Place cookies onto ungreased baking sheets.

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Baking Sheet

Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are barely browned, 5 to 8 minutes.

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Let cookies cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes before removing to finish cooling on a wire rack.

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Beat 1 cup softened butter, 3 cups confectioners' sugar, 1 1/2 tablespoons vanilla extract, and evaporated milk in a bowl until smooth. Gradually stir 6 cups confectioners' sugar into mixture until combined. Beat frosting hard until fluffy; stir in additional evaporated milk or confectioners' sugar if needed to reach desired consistency. Frost cooled cookies.

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Powdered Sugar