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TEA CAKES WITH BUTTER FROSTING

1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
5 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk

Beat together butter and sugar on medium speed until creamy. Stir in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla.

Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Gradually add to the creamed mixture alternating with buttermilk.

Wrap and chill for 1 hour or overnight.

On a work surface lightly dusted with flour, roll out to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut with 2-1/2-inch cookie cutters dipped in flour before cutting each cookie.

Using a spatula sprayed with non-stick spray, gently transfer cookies onto a greased cookie sheets placing 1 inch apart.

Bake at 350°F for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned.

Remove to wire racks to cool.

FROSTING:

1/2 cup butter, softened
4 cups confectioners’ sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 to 5 tablespoons milk
Food coloring, optional

In a mixing bowl, cream butter, sugar, vanilla and enough milk to make a spreadable frosting. Add a drop of food coloring, if desired. Frost the cookies.

Makes about 5 dozen.

Submitted by: CM

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Tea Cakes with Butter Frosting

· Jan 26 · #26106

Iananme (California) says:

I absolutely love this recipe. The cookies come out soft and cakelike. They don't flatten out like other sugar cookie cutouts and you can easily decorate them. The cookie itself is very similar to the "Lofthouse" frosted sugar cookies you buy at your neighborhood grocer.

· Feb 10 · #27687

Kelsie (New York) says:

I got home early from school and my mom loves sugar cookies and butter frosting so I made our secret sugar cookie recipe and I made this frosting and she loved it. It helped a lot cause all the other recipes I could find for frosting they needed to be boiled for some reason.

· Aug 3 · #128919

Sandra (New York) says:

These are just the best. I'm addicted!

· Dec 21 · #135407

Pennsylvaniagrl (California) says:

Perfect frosting recipe for my ricotta biscuit cookies, just add sprinkles!

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