Frosted Soft Sugar Cookies

These have been on my baking bucket list for a while! Valentine’s Day provided the perfect opportunity to make them! 😍 And wow, am I glad that I did!
But first, a bit of background: These cookies are called Lofthouse cookies and they are quintessentially American. They’re sold at grocery stores as well as large retailers like Target or Walmart and are instantly recognizable in their clear plastic containers. They are soft, sweet, and have a loooong list of ingredients including several stabilizers, preservatives, and artificial colors. They’re also very polarizing: people either love ‘em or hate ‘em.
The good news is that if you make them yourself, they taste about 100 times better and you eliminate all the crap ingredients. ♥️
The cookie recipe is from Stella Parks at Serious Eats but the frosting is from Eric Kim from the New York Times.
#Holiday #Valentine #Gift #Dessert #Lofthouse #Dessert
Frosted Soft Sugar Cookies
These have been on my baking bucket list for a while! Valentine’s Day provided the perfect opportunity to make them! 😍 And wow, am I glad that I did!
But first, a bit of background: These cookies are called Lofthouse cookies and they are quintessentially American. They’re sold at grocery stores as well as large retailers like Target or Walmart and are instantly recognizable in their clear plastic containers. They are soft, sweet, and have a loooong list of ingredients including several stabilizers, preservatives, and artificial colors. They’re also very polarizing: people either love ‘em or hate ‘em.
The good news is that if you make them yourself, they taste about 100 times better and you eliminate all the crap ingredients. ♥️
The cookie recipe is from Stella Parks at Serious Eats but the frosting is from Eric Kim from the New York Times.
#Holiday #Valentine #Gift #Dessert #Lofthouse #Dessert
Steps
- 1
Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Line 4 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- 2
Combine the egg whites, heavy cream, and vanilla extract in a small bowl. Whisk well and set aside.
- 3
In a separate bowl, weigh the flour.
Please note that only bleached cake flour is recommended for this recipe. If you use all-purpose flour, the texture of the cookies will not be light and fluffy.
- 4
In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the butter, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Using a paddle attachment, cream everything together on medium speed until it is nice and fluffy. This will take approximately five minutes.
Scrape the bowl about halfway through, to ensure even mixing. - 5
Add the egg white mixture to the butter mixture in four or five additions, beating after each addition, until smooth and creamy.
- 6
Remove the bowl from the stand mixer. Add the cake flour, then fold and mix until a smooth, soft dough is formed.
At first, the mixture will be dry and lumpy. Keep the faith and keep gently mixing! Eventually, the dough will become much smoother and softer. It will look like a very thick cake batter. - 7
Use about 2 tablespoons of dough per cookie.
You should end up with 24 cookies total. Redistribute the dough as necessary to get cookies of approximately the same size.
Please note that I experimented a little. Cookies in my first batch were a little bit larger. My second batch was a little bit smaller.
- 8
Bake the cookies for about 15 minutes. Rotate the cookie sheets halfway through baking.
Allow the cookies to cool completely before frosting.Shown below, you can see that the cookies should be very lightly browned on their bottoms. Their internal texture is light and fine.
- 9
Play the freeze dried fruit in to sealed plastic bags. Crush the fruit thoroughly with a rolling pin until it is very fine dust.
- 10
Pass the dried fruit through a fine sieve to eliminate any seeds or chunks.
- 11
Add the butter, powdered sugar, the vanilla extract, and the salt to the bowl of a stand mixer. Beat on medium speed until everything is light and creamy (approximately five minutes).
Transfer about half of the frosting to a separate bowl.
Add the crushed freeze-dried blueberries to one batch of frosting and cream well.
- 12
Use the back of a spoon to apply the frosting liberally onto each cookie. Then, add sprinkles!
- 13
Repeat the process with the raspberry batch.
- 14
Share with your favorite Valentine! 💌 ♥️
Store the cookies in an airtight container for up to four days. - 15
Notes:
♥️ Since I wanted a more intense purplish-blue color, I did add some gel food coloring to the blueberry frosting batch.
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