Recipe

Best Ever Butterscotch Cookies With Browned Butter Frosting Recipe

	Krumkake / All my dishes 7 months, 1 week ago This is another recipe I first ate at my mother's, way back when. It seems that once I gave her grandchildren, she became a cookie-making monster...why does that sound so familiar to me? The browned butter frosting makes these cookies "Best Ever"...... More Prep:15m Cook:60m Servings:48	Krumkake
	soft butterscotch cookie with topped with smooth creamy browned butter frosting

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Ingredients

1 tablespoon vinegar

1 cup evaporated milk

½ cup butter, softened

1½ cups brown sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2½ cups white flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

⅔ cup diced pecans or walnuts or cashews (optional)

Browned Butter Frosting

½ cup butter (do not use margarine)

2 cups powdered sugar

about 2 to 4 tablespoons half-and-half or whole milk (may need a bit more)

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Put vinegar in a 1 cup measuring cup and add the evaporated milk to it; set aside.

With a mixer, beat together butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.

Beat in the eggs and extract.

In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.

By hand, alternately stir in the milk mixture and the flour mixture into the butter mixture until all ingredients are blended together well.

Stir in the nuts, if used.

Spray baking sheets lightly with cooking spray.

Drop cookies by spoonfuls onto the baking sheets.

Bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 12 minutes, until cookies are very lightly browned on the bottoms.

Remove cookies from baking sheet and cool on racks or waxed paper.

When cookies are cooled, frost and allow to set out on waxed paper until frosting becomes firm.

Store cookies with waxed paper between layers to prevent frosting from sticking to the other cookies.

For frosting, place butter in a small saucepan (large enough to hold the 2 cups powdered sugar when it is added!).

Over medium heat, melt the butter.

While stirring constantly, continue to cook the butter until it stops bubbling and has turned a very light caramel color.

You must be very careful not to scorch or burn the butter – you just want a slight golden color to it.

Quickly remove the pan from the heat and add the powdered sugar and extract.

Stir in enough half-and-half to make the frosting spreadable.

This frosting will become firm as it sets, so you may need to add more half-and-half to it when you are ready to frost the cookies.

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Comments

trackwidow 7 months, 1 week ago said:
These sound wonderful. I bet the make the house smell SO good while they are baking too!

michellem 7 months, 1 week ago said:
Just add one of these to my behind! Looks so good!! Michelle

organicmama 7 months, 1 week ago said:
Oh Krummie, can I be one of your grandkids? I will behave.

rosemaryblue 7 months, 1 week ago said:
The phone rang earlier as I was about to comment, so I will proceed...these cookies, I know, are divine!! The brown sugar, butter, and that little bit of vinegar got my attention and the brown butter icing finishes the story! Your cookie recipes are wonderful!

zena824 7 months, 1 week ago said:
Heaven forbid Krum....Im gonna have to get out that mumu again..... Mercy these sound good... I can taste them with my cuppa coffee right now..

kukla 7 months, 1 week ago said:
You did it again :)

chefmeow 7 months, 1 week ago said:
You have me drooling over here with all of the fantastic recipes you have posted of late. Yummers again.

conner909 5 months, 2 weeks ago said:
OMG this recipe looks almost orgasmic!

crabhappychick 1 month, 2 weeks ago said:
My husband is a huge fan of caramel and butterscotch. I intend (fingers crossed) to make these for his birthday next weekend!

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