Melt in Your Mouth Butter Cookies

Name: Melt in Your Mouth Butter Cookies
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 38 min
Yield: 3 dozen
Ingredients: 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine; 3/4 cup sugar; 1 egg; 1/2 teaspoon vanilla; 2 1/2 cups flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1/4 cup margarine; 2 cups icing sugar; 1/2 teaspoon vanilla; 1 1/2-2 tablespoons milk; 3 drops food coloring (optional)

Submitted by CrystalB

"This is my sister-in-law's recipe that I made for the first time this Valentine's Day, and have since made I don't know how many more batches! It's quite similar (but not identical) to some of the other butter cookie recipes on this website, but I didn't see any others that had a recipe for icing (and I just can't imagine them without)!!"

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Ready In:: 38mins
Ingredients:: 12
Yields:: 3 dozen

ingredients

1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine
³⁄₄ cup sugar
1 egg
¹⁄₂ teaspoon vanilla
2 ¹⁄₂ cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
¹⁄₄ teaspoon salt
Icing
¹⁄₄ cup margarine
2 cups icing sugar
¹⁄₂ teaspoon vanilla
1 ¹⁄₂ - 2 tablespoons milk
3 drops food coloring (optional)

directions

Cream butter or margarine (and yes margarine does work beautifully! I can see some people raising their eyebrows!) with sugar.
Add eggs and vanilla and mix.
Add flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.
At this point you can either roll out and cut with cookie cutters or roll dough into 1 inch balls and flatten on cookie sheet.
Bake at 375F for 6 to 8 minutes until set, NOT brown.
Mix icing ingredients together and ice cookies once cooled.

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CrystalB

Canada

I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba with my husband of 5 1/2 years, Rob, and our 7 month old son Aaron. I was a legal assistant with a large law firm for the past 8 years until Aaron was born. I am now enjoying my new role as a stay-at-home mom.

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