old fashioned butter cookies with butter frosting

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons whole milk
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• frosting:
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 3 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 1/2 tablespoons vanilla extract
• 9 tablespoons evaporated milk, or more as needed
• 6 cups confectioners' sugar, or more as needed

Recipe

Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 5 mins Ready Time: 3 hrs 5 mins


• beat 1 cup softened butter with white sugar in a large bowl until creamy. beat egg, whole milk, and 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract into butter mixture until smooth. whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl and gradually stir dry ingredients into moist ingredients to make a smooth dough. chill dough in refrigerator for 2 to 3 hours.
• preheat oven to 400 degrees f (200 degrees c). dust a pastry cloth or kitchen towel generously with flour.
• 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 ungreased baking sheets.
• 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.
• beat 1 cup softened butter, 3 cups confectioners' sugar, 1 1/2 tablespoons vanilla extract, and evaporated milk in a bowl until smooth. gradually stir 6 cups confectioners' sugar into mixture until combined. beat frosting hard until fluffy; stir in additional evaporated milk or confectioners' sugar if needed to reach desired consistency. frost cooled cookies.