Description
These are cookies my mother has been making since I was a little girl. They are melt-in-your-mouth delicious!
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons whole milk
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 3 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1 ½ tablespoons vanilla extract
- 9 tablespoons evaporated milk, or more as needed
- 6 cups confectioners’ sugar, or more as needed
Instructions
- Prepare cookies: Beat butter and white sugar in a large bowl until creamy. Beat in egg
- milk
- and vanilla until smooth.
- Whisk flour
- baking powder
- and salt in a separate bowl. Gradually stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients to make a smooth dough. Chill dough in refrigerator for 2 to 3 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Dust a pastry cloth or kitchen towel generously with flour.
- Divide dough into thirds and roll each third out 1/8-inch-thick on the prepared pastry cloth. Cut shapes out of the rolled dough with cookie cutters. Place cookies onto ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are barely browned
- 5 to 8 minutes. Let cookies cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes before removing to finish cooling on a wire rack.
- While cookies are cooling
- prepare frosting: Beat 3 cups powdered sugar
- butter
- 9 teaspoons evaporated milk
- and vanilla in a bowl until smooth. Gradually stir in remaining 6 cups powdered sugar into mixture until combined. Continue to beat on high speed until frosting is fluffy; stir in additional evaporated milk or confectioners’ sugar if needed to reach desired consistency.
- Frost cooled cookies.
Servings: 72