Vanilla Buttermilk Cookies
Soft, cakey vanilla cookies with a sweet icing, all tinged with buttermilk, these are amazingly addictive.
Servings 4 dozen
Ingredients
Cookies:
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2/3 cup buttermilk room temperature
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
Icing:
- 3 tablespoons buttermilk
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F (180 C).
- Add the softened butter and sugar to the bowl of a mixer and cream until fluffy, about 3-5 minutes.
- While the butter and sugar are creaming, in a small bowl add the dry ingredients and fluff mix with a fork.
- Add the eggs and the vanilla to the creamed butter and sugar, mixing on low until combined. Next add the buttermilk and mix on low to incorporate.
- Lastly, add the dry ingredients to the mixer bowl and blend until just combined, turn the mixer off and stir by hand with a large spatula a couple times to make sure everything has come together.
- With a soup spoon, drop mounds of dough (a generous tablespoon and a half or so) onto a cookie sheet and bake for about 12-15 minutes, until very barely golden. Remove the cookies to a rack to cool.
- While the cookies are cooling, combine the icing ingredients in a small bowl until it’s lump-free and smooth. Top the cooled cookies with a spoonful, spreading the icing with the back of a spoon or offset spatula.
- Let the icing set up and serve. Store in an airtight container.
Notes
Adapted from Jen’s Favorite Cookies.