swedish tea cookies

Ingredients

• Servings: 5
• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup light cream
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar for decoration
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 3 tablespoons evaporated milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• preheat oven to 375 degrees f (190 degrees c).
• cut 1 cup of the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. stir in the cream and form the dough into a ball.
• roll dough out 1/2 inch thick and cut with a small round cutter. roll cut circles in granulated sugar and place on ungreased cookies sheets. prick cookies a few times with a fork.
• bake at 375 degrees f (190 degrees c) for 8 to 10 minutes. let cookies cool before frosting.
• to assemble: frost bottoms of half of the cookies and place the remaining cookies on top to make sandwich cookies.
• to make buttercream frosting: beat 1/2 cup of the butter until fluffy. gradually add the confectioners' sugar. beat in the evaporated milk and the vanilla. adjust milk and confectioners' sugar amounts to get buttercream to a good spreading consistency.