09/09/09 is the date of my mother's birthday this year. As my Aunt Debbie recently pointed out, this is her 'golden' birthday. To celebrate I thought I might make some golden butter cookies with key lime icing and send them to her. Butter cookies are some of the easiest cookies to make~they only take 5 ingredients. The following is a set by step picture guide just because I can!
Recipe:
2 sticks unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
2 cups AP flour
1 cup corn starch
1 tsp salt
Directions:
Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl.
Sift flour, cornstarch, and salt in and use a fork to combine.
*note: using beaters here will over work your flour and make for really tough cookies.
When things are looking well and truly combined start pulling everything together with your hands. You should end up with a crumbly but well formed ball.
Refrigerate your dough for about 20 minutes so it's nice and firm and easy to roll. Then preheat your oven to 325. Roll out your dough on a lightly floured surface and cut cookies till your hearts content.
I didn't have cookie cutters (something I have since remedied) so I used a champagne glass to get nice round cookies.
While the cookies were baking I whipped together some simple lime icing.
Icing recipe:
1/2 cup powered sugar
1 tsp key lime juice
Enough water to get whatever consistency you want
I wanted my icing to be drizzlable so I made it pretty thin
Then I put a thin layer on my cookies once they were cool.
Then I mailed the cookies to my mommy! She loved them! So go do something nice for your mommy, you'll be glad you did.
How's the new mixer working?
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