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    Home » Top Amish Recipes » Cookies, Candies & Bars

    Susan Schlabach's Vanilla Butter Roll-Outs

    Published: Jul 25, 2013 · Updated: Feb 2, 2021 by Kevin Williams | Leave a Comment

    Susan Schlabach from The Home Place was nice enough to share her recipe with us for homemade vanilla butter rollouts,which you see in this photo.  YUH-UM...these are probably about the best sugar cookie I've tasted and I've tasted many.  Too many, probably. But these are superb!  The recipe is below.  You can also email [email protected] to sign up for their weekly email newsletter where you'll get specials, updates 
     

    Vanilla Butter Cut-Outs
     
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    Ingredients
    • 1½ cups butter softened
    • 1½ cups sugar .
    • 2 eggs
    • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
    • 4 cups all-purpose flour
    • 1 tsp. baking soda
    • 1 tsp. cream of tartar
    • 1 tsp. salt
    • Frosting:
    • 6 T. butter softened
    • 3 cups confectioners' sugar
    • 114 cup milk
    • 1 tsp. vanilla
    • Colored sugar, optional
    Instructions
    1. In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each In addition.
    2. Beat in vanilla.
    3. Combine flour, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt; gradually add to
    4. the creamed mixture.
    5. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes or until easy to handle.
    6. On a lightly floured surface. roll out to ¼ in. thickness.
    7. Cut with 2-½ in cookie cutters dipped in flour.
    8. Place 2 in. apart-on ungreased baking sheets.
    9. Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes·or until lightly browned.
    10. For frosting, combine butter, confectioners' sugar, milk and vanilla in a mixing bowl; beat until smooth.
    11. Spread or drizzle over cookies. Sprinkle with colored sugar if desired.
    12. Yield: about 7 dozen
    13. Tips:
    14. - roll out a portion of dough at a time; keep the remaining dough in the refrigerator to prevent
    15. drying out.
    16. - check the thickness of the rolled dough with a ruler.
    17. - the cookie cutter size and shape indicated in the recipe is only suggestion. Feel free to use
    18. whatever size and shape you like, but remember that may affect the yield.
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