Butter riches
4 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ¾ | cup | Butter |
| ½ | cup | Brown sugar; firmly packed |
| 1 | tablespoon | Sugar |
| 1 | Egg yolk | |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
| 2 | cups | Flour |
| Walnut halves | ||
| ¼ | cup | Butter |
| 2½ | cup | Powdered sugar |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
| 3 | tablespoons | Milk; (up to 4) |
Directions
FROSTING
COOKIES: Cream butter, brown sugar, and sugar well. Add unbeaten egg yolk and vanilla. Blend in 2 cups flour. Chill dough for 3 hours. Shape dough into balls and place on greased baking sheets. Flatten with sugar dipped glass. Bake at 350 degrees 7 to 9 minutes. Makes 5 to 6 dozen. Frost. Place half a walnut on each cookie, if desired.
FROSTING: Brown butter in saucepan and remove from heat. Add 2½ cups powdered sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Gradually add 3 or 4 tablespoons of milk for spreading consistency. busted by sooz
Recipe by: Key Gourmet
Posted to recipelu-digest by sooz <kirkland@...> on Mar 19, 1998