The cookies alone are delish, but the combination with the icing makes them incredible! These are great cookies to make for those who are not huge fans of chocolate. Or cut these cookies out into hearts and serve them to your honey on Valentine’s day. They are sure to be a hit! Check out what our friends over at Julie Blanner had to say about these:
“These cookies are so much easier than you’d anticipate. No fussy details, just a simple sugar cookie and some icing.”
I mean, can it get any better than this? Keep these nearby for your next cookie exchange party!
Ingredients
1 c salted Land O’ Lakes butter, softened
¾ c Wesson vegetable oil
1 ¼ c Domino brown sugar, packed
1 c Domino powdered sugar
2 tsp McCormick vanilla
2 Tbsp water
2 eggs, room temperature
6 c Gold Medal flour
1 tsp salt
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp cream of tartar
ICING:
icing
2 Tbsp Land O’ Lakes butter, softened
3 Tbsp McArthur milk
½ c Domino brown sugar, packed
1 c Domino powdered sugar
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
Combine butter, oil, sugars, water and vanilla until smooth.
Add in eggs and mix until just combined.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, salt, baking soda and cream of tartar.
Gradually blend dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Refrigerate dough 30 minutes and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
On a lined cookie sheet, drop large {golf ball size} dough balls and press with a small greased glass, followed by a spoon to make a pool for the icing.
Bake 8 minutes.
For the icing:
Cream butter, milk, sugars, vanilla and salt.
Using a teaspoon, fill the baked sugar cookies.
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Quick Tip: Serve these crumbled as a topping over ice cream.
Thanks again to Julie Blanner for this amazing recipe.