Icing Cookies
This simple, not too sweet cookie is sure to become a Holiday classic in your house.
Ingredients
- 1 cup salted butter melted
- 2 cup flour sifted
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup walnuts finely chopped
for the icing
- 1 tbsp butter softened
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1 1/4 cup powdered sugar sifted
- 2-4 drops red and green food coloring
- 1-2 tsp milk as needed
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine the butter, flour, baking powder, vanilla and crushed nuts in a mixing bowl.
- Scoop dough by the rounded tablespoon full and roll each scoop into a ball.
- Arrange the cookie balls on an ungreased baking sheet and make a depression in the center of each with your thumb.
- Bake 10-14 minutes, or until the bottoms are golden.
- While cookies are cooling, make the icing.
- Melt the butter in a small mixing bowl. Add the vanilla and powdered sugar and stir to combine. Add milk 1 tsp at a time to make a smooth but reasonably thick icing.
- Divide icing into two small bowls and add a couple of drops of red food coloring to one, green to the other, mixing each thoroughly. Add milk, 1 tsp at a time, as needed, to thin the icing out.
- Drizzle icing into the depression at the center of each cookie, alternating red and green. (Make additional icing if desired).