These butter cookies are melt-in-your-mouth delicious! My mother has been making these since I was a little girl.
Ingredients
- butter: 1 cup (softened)
- white sugar: 0.75 cup
- egg: 1 piece
- whole milk: 2 Tbsp
- ½ teaspoons vanilla extract: 1 piece
- all-purpose flour: 3 cups
- baking powder: 1 tsp
- salt: 0.5 tsp
- butter: 1 cup (softened)
- powdered sugar: 9 cups (divided, or more if needed)
- ½ tablespoons vanilla extract: 1 piece
- evaporated milk: 9 Tbsp (or more if needed)
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Stages of cooking
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Prepare cookies: Beat butter and white sugar in a large bowl until creamy. Beat in egg, milk, and vanilla until smooth.
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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.
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Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Dust a pastry cloth or kitchen towel generously with flour.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Frost cooled cookies.
