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Frosted Butter Cookies

Name: Frosted Butter Cookies
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4-1/2 dozen.
Ingredients: 2 cups butter, softened; 1-3/4 cups sugar; 1 egg yolk; 4 cups all-purpose flour; Prepared vanilla frosting; Food coloring and decorating sprinkles, optional

2 reviews

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Total Time

Prep: 30 min. Bake: 10 min./batch

Makes

4-1/2 dozen

Updated: Sep. 23, 2022

"These cookies melt in your mouth...even when they're not frosted," writes Sharon Pickerd from her home in Sparta, Michigan. "The recipe was handed down years ago from a cousin who tasted the golden treats at a children's fund-raiser."

Frosted Butter Cookies Recipe photo by Taste of Home

Ingredients

2 cups butter, softened
1-3/4 cups sugar
1 egg yolk
4 cups all-purpose flour
Prepared vanilla frosting
Food coloring and decorating sprinkles, optional

Directions

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk. Gradually add flour and mix well.

Roll into 1-in. balls. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Flatten with a glass dipped in flour.Bake at 375° for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.
Tint frosting with food coloring if desired. Frost cookies. Decorate as desired.