pink house cookies

 

Just before Mo left to go back to school, I made a batch of sugar cookies that she could take with her. She loves, loves, loves cookies....especially these. I made a double recipe so I could try to make extras for the garden club boutique tomorrow. If you have read this blog long enough, you know how much I love little houses and that all of our houses are pink. Or at least the fantasy favorites are.

This double recipe makes lots of delicious, easy cookies - not sure how many, but enough for this project anyway.

1 cup softened butter

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

4 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

Mix butter and sugar, then add eggs and vanilla. Combine dry ingredients and add to butter mixture. Mix well. Roll, cut with the shape of choice and bake at 375 degrees for 8- 10 minutes. Remove to a cooling rack.

My frosting recipe is always a spontaneous one and I'm not sure about the exactness of this, but I kind of start here: 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon softened butter and 2 tablespoons warm water, a drop of vanilla. Add more water by drips or more sugar by spoonfuls to achieve spreadable consistency. Add coloring. Make a second uncolored batch for white piping and decorating. Frost, let dry, then decorate with white icing in a pastry tube fitted with a small tip. Let them dry overnight and package individually with pretty ribbons and tags. (These are punched from Anna Griffin's gorgeous Carolina cardstock collection.)

 

And they definitely taste as good as they look. I love these frosted cookies too. Happy holidays everyone! xoC

Comments

[Peggy Lee Baker]

Love the little pink house cookies, I wrote down the recipe, my daughters will love to taste them, all I need to do is find a little house cookie cutter. But until I do, I will find the perfect shape, thanks for sharing, Love your blog.

Peggy Lee
Whitefield, NH
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[Kelly Henderson]

O My Gosh, how completely adorable! I love to make sugar cookies for the holidays. Mine are usually red and yellow. Thanks for the cookie inspiration.

[Lena]

These look so sweet...in more ways than one! I love frosted cookies like these, and your recipe sounds so good, Charlotte. They're just lovely. I need to look for a little house cookie cutter now!

[Lorrie]

Such sweet cookies - and you've packaged them up so prettily. Time to get out the mixer and rolling pin!

[Linda Crispell]

I have collected cookie cutters for 100 years now, and I needed a little inspiration. Those are beautiful!

[M]

Beyond cute!

M ^..^

[janice]

I've been looking for a good sugar cookie recipe, so I am definitely going to try these.

...and you make your icing like my mother makes it.

Janice

[paige]

my absolute most favorite desert anywhere at anytime is definately home made sugar cookies with icing...& pink houses....wrapped in celephane....too too sweet
xo

[NATALEA]

could I ever go for one of those cookies right now! they are beautiful.

[Susan Shintaku]

Those are just too cute and look really yummy. Wish I could grab one right off of the computer screen ;-)

Happy Holidays!

[Cindy (Junque Art)]

These look so good and cute too! Yummy, I may try them for a cookie exchange I'm doing!

[Mary]

Gorgeous cookies! I am IMPRESSED!

[StorybookWoods]

Akkkk, I love these cookies. So sweet !!!!! Clarice

[hope]

Yum!

[Teresa McFayden]

Gaaa!!!! Lovely! So beautiful and if Mo likes them, they must be ever so yummy! I'm putting this on my list of cookies to make this year. Can't even wait to taste them.

[~Vicki]

How adorable those cookie houses are! They remind me of my current house when we first bought it--a modern Victorian (with a turret), and painted the same color of pink! Unfortunately all the siding had to be replaced and we opted for sunny yellow to counteract the gray days here in the pacific northwest. I have a big cookie cutter collection, but not a single house. I never knew a house cookie could look so CUTE! Thank you Charlotte for all that you share. xo

[Troy Louise]

Those cookies are just so cute. Love them - I just ran across a house cookie cutter I bought several years ago & haven't even used. Might have to give it a whirl. But, my guys probably would like red or green ones. Thanks for the smile!

[charlotte]

found similar house cookie cutters online:

http://www.coppergifts.com/productcart/pc/House_Cookie_Cutters_Traditional_CG136.asp

and

http://www.irresistiblecookiejar.com/SCutters.htm

[Cathy Santarsiero]

If they taste as good as they look then they must be fantastic! Have a happy weekend! Warmly, Cathy ^..^

[Leslie]

Those are so, so cute! Now I just need the house cookie cutter...

[Jenni]

I Love your little pink house cookies! I think I might have to make some...they look so good.
THanks for sharing your great ideas.... :-)

[tea time and roses]

Beautiful cookies Charlotte, and so pretty in pink! Thank you so much for the recipe! You enjoy a lovely weekend!

Smiles...

Beverly

[Rebecca]

My mom and I are going to make some of these for gifts for our friends in our dollhouse group. Mom has a little house out behind her house that is about 12 by 24 and we call it "The Whatnot" and that is where our dollhouse club meets. It looks a bit like Santa's workshop in there. Beautiful dollhouses are built there. Thanks for sharing these darling cookies.

[Jackie]

I love your pink house cookies!!! :-)

[Susan Borgen]

Gorgeous cookies! Almost too beautiful to eat! Thanks for the recipe.

[Delaney Gates]

Oh goodness, those are the cutest evah!!