Old Fashioned Butter Cookies with Butter Frosting

These are cookies my mother has been making since I was a little girl. They are melt-in-your-mouth delicious!

• Preparation Time: 45 mins
• Cooking Time: 10 mins
• Total Time: 55 mins
• Calories: 136 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ¾ cup white sugar
• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 ½ tablespoons vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons whole milk
• 9 cups powdered sugar, divided, or more as needed
• 9 tablespoons evaporated milk, or more as needed

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Prepare cookies: Beat butter and white sugar in a large bowl until creamy. Beat in egg, milk, and vanilla until smooth.

Step 2

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.

Step 3

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

Step 4

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.

Step 5

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.

Step 6

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.

Step 7

Frost cooled cookies.