If you’ve ever been to one of our holiday celebrations, birthday parties or a family get together of any kind — then you’ve tried these cookies. My mom makes {hands down} THE BEST iced cookies I’ve ever had and pretty much everyone who knows her will agree. She uses the same green bowl to mix them up {my sister & I plus all three grand kids got their first bath in that bowl, too} and as soon as she posts a picture of the bowl on Facebook, the requests start rolling in.
A few days before Sophie’s party, she helped Gran make a big batch of snowflake cookies, perfect for a Frozen celebration. There were lots of snowflake sprinkles rolling around and we even managed to sneak a few cookies in before dinner!
I asked Gran if I could share the recipe with you today and she was kind enough to send it my way. She swear it’s easy, but I’ll have to admit — I’ve never tried baking them myself. She did let me know that the most important ingredient is PRACTICE. Apparently I need to get started on some of that myself.
INGREDIENTS:
2.5 sticks of butter
3 cups of sugar
3 eggs
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
7 cups of all-purpose flour
7 teaspoons of baking powder
(for icing)
1 box of sifted confectioner’s sugar
2 tablespoons of butter
water
DIRECTIONS:
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time and stir. Add vanilla. Sift dry ingredients together and mix. Roll out and cut as desired. Bake in a 350* oven until lightly brown {we cook for 8 minutes on metal baking sheets}. Let cookies cool completely before icing.
For icing: Mix sugar and butter together, adding water until it reaches the consistency of icing. Pipe or spread onto cooled cookies and decorate! You can also use melted almond bark to drizzle over cookies instead of icing.
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