Italian Cookies: Ginette Cookies

Ginette Cookies

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla, anise or lemon extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder

Method

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth.
3. Mix in the egg and vanilla.
4. Combine the flour and baking powder; stir into the creamed mixture until blended.
5. Divide dough into walnut sized portions. Roll each piece into a rope and then shape into a loop.
6. Place cookies 2 inches apart on the prepared cookie sheets.
7. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until firm and golden at the edges.
8. Frost with a sugar glaze made from adding 1 TB of milk & 1/2 ts vanilla, anise or lemon extract to 2 cups of powdered sugar, mixing and adjusting ingredients until a light glaze forms.

Maddie Trap’s Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 small container (8 oz) sour cream
• 2 sticks butter
• 1 cup sugr
• 3 cups flour
• 1 TB baking powder
• 1 ts baking soda
• 1 ts real vanilla extract
• 2 eggs

Bake until very lightly colored, then cool completely and frost. If you don’t cool completely, crumbles will get into the frosting.

Method

1. Beat butter and sugar.
2. Beat eggs with vanilla, add to sugar
3. Fold in sour cream.
4. Mix dry ingredients, fold into wet ingredients. Chill overnight.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
6. Cook then frost.
7. Frost with a sugar glaze made from adding 1 TB of milk & 1/2 ts vanilla, anise or lemon extract to 2 cups of powdered sugar, mixing and adjusting ingredients until a light glaze forms.