My old school bitter cream cookies have a tender, cakey, melt-in-your-mouth texture and a candy and easy frosting. They arrive collectively rapidly with no chilling required! Recipe features a how-to video!
Outdated-Original Bitter Cream Cookies
Bitter cream is one among my favourite secret elements. I sneak it into my pie crust recipe for probably the most foolproof pie dough, fold it into muffins for probably the most tender chunk, and dollop it into cheesecake batter for that signature tang. Immediately although, we aren’t sneaking something–bitter cream is absolutely the shining star in these cute and irresistible bitter cream cookies!
This can be a easy, old school recipe. These cookies are fairly totally different from a lot of my different cookie recipes, as they’re extra cakey than they’re chewy. The truth is, they type of remind me of small frosted truffles!
The bitter cream lends itself to the cakiness, however it additionally provides taste and moisture to the cookies. I additionally opted to incorporate a little bit of bitter cream within the frosting, which I believe provides depth of taste and retains issues from being too candy (however you’ll be able to depart it on the market in the event you choose!).
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Comes collectively rapidly with NO chilling required.
- Could be made with lemon zest (or actually any citrus zest) for a little bit of freshness and depth of taste.
- Delicate, cakey texture that’s a bit totally different from the norm round right here. If you happen to preferred my lofthouse cookies, you’ll like these too!
- Versatile; add meals coloring and sprinkles to the frosting to swimsuit any event. They’d be so cute with Christmas sprinkles for the vacations!
Substances
Earlier than we start, I’ll overview just a few of the necessary elements we’ll be utilizing on this recipe.
- Bitter cream. Full fats bitter cream is my desire! I suppose you would get away with making these cookies with full-fat, plain Greek yogurt in a pinch, however bitter cream will work finest.
- Egg. We’ll solely want one egg immediately. Be sure that yours is at room temperature so it combines into the dough simply. If you happen to neglect to set yours out forward of time, I do have a straightforward trick to rapidly convey eggs to room temperature.
- Lemon zest. That is optionally available, however in the event you like lemons and have them available, add the zest! It helps preserve these bitter cream cookies from being too candy.
- Flour. Be sure you know how you can measure flour correctly! If you happen to over-measure your flour (the most typical mistake with flour), you would find yourself with a dry, crumbly dough and cookies.
- Butter. Use unsalted butter and ensure it’s softened (however not melty) earlier than you get began. If you happen to solely have salted butter available, you’ll be able to cut back the salt within the cookies to ¼ teaspoon and omit it completely from the frosting.
SAM’S TIP: For the cookies within the picture I coloured the icing by including a tablespoon of pulverized freeze-dried strawberry powder. It added a pleasant strawberry taste, although the cookies completely didn’t want the added taste; I did it for colour and enjoyable!
Keep in mind, that is simply an outline of the elements I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the submit!
Learn how to Make Bitter Cream Cookies
- Beat the butter and sugar collectively till lightened in colour and fluffy.
- Stir within the remaining moist elements till properly mixed. I like including lemon zest at this step and advocate you do too when you have it (and in the event you like lemon, after all). It provides such a pleasant recent taste!
- Progressively add the dry elements. If you happen to add them unexpectedly, you could have a tough time getting the dough to come back collectively, so I like to recommend including them in three elements.
- Bake 1 ½ tablespoon scoops of cookie dough on parchment lined baking sheets. Be sure that to provide the cookies some area in between, since they may unfold as they bake.
- Flatten the tops of the cookies with the underside of a glass or measuring cup if you need a easy floor for the frosting. This additionally makes the cookies a bit of extra dense and chewy, which I like!
- Make the frosting in a big bowl. I used a tablespoon of pulverized freeze dried strawberry powder to paint/taste mine, however you’ll be able to simply use meals coloring in the event you like!
- Clean frosting over your cookies. An offset spatula works nice for this! Don’t neglect so as to add sprinkles (or do-it-yourself sprinkles) in the event you’d like.
SAM’S TIP: If you would like much more lemon taste in your cookies, you need to use some lemon zest or juice within the frosting as an alternative of vanilla extract.
Ceaselessly Requested Questions
I personally don’t refrigerate them. The bitter cream within the cookies themselves is cooked, and I really feel snug with the small quantity we use within the frosting as a result of it’s stabilized by the powdered sugar. If you happen to nonetheless resolve to retailer your cookies within the fridge, they won’t be as tender and delicate as if saved at room temp. Storing in hermetic container at room temperature (or freezing) is finest.
These cookies are imagined to be cakey! This texture is a direct results of including bitter cream to the dough. If you’re in search of the same tasting cookie that isn’t as cakey, attempt my cream cheese sugar cookies.
I think the bitter cream may very well be swapped with an equal quantity of full-fat Greek yogurt however haven’t but tried it but. I’ve additionally solely examined this recipe with full-fat bitter cream (not a low-fat selection) and that’s what I’d advocate utilizing.
If nostalgic recipes are your factor, then attempt my whoopie pies or icebox cookies subsequent!
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Bitter Cream Cookies
Servings: 24 cookies
Energy: 192kcal
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Directions
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Preheat oven to 350F (175C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Put aside.
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In a big mixing bowl, use an electrical mixer to beat collectively butter and sugar till gentle and fluffy.
½ cup (113 g) unsalted butter, 1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar
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Add bitter cream, egg, and vanilla extract and beat collectively till creamy and properly mixed. If utilizing lemon zest, stir this in right here as properly.
½ cup (120 g) bitter cream, 1 massive egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 Tablespoon recent lemon zest
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In a separate, medium-sized bowl whisk collectively flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
2 ½ cups (315 g) all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon baking soda, ½ teaspoon salt
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Progressively add dry elements to moist, stirring collectively till fully mixed.
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Scoop dough by degree 1 ½ Tablespoon sized scoop and drop onto ready baking sheet, spacing cookies no less than 2” (5cm) aside. Switch to heart rack of preheated 350F (175C) oven and bake for 10-11 minutes.
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Inside a minute of the cookies popping out of the oven, very frivolously flatten the tops with the underside of a clear glass or measuring cup (optionally available, however permits for a flat floor for icing). Enable to chill fully on the cookie sheet earlier than frosting.
Frosting
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Mix butter and sugar in a big mixing bowl and use an electrical mixer on low-speed to beat collectively till easy and creamy.
½ cup (113 g) unsalted butter, 1 ½ cups (190 g) powdered sugar
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Add bitter cream, vanilla extract, and salt and beat collectively to fully mix. If utilizing meals coloring, add just a few drops and stir to evenly colour the frosting.
2 Tablespoons (30 g) bitter cream, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, ¼ teaspoon salt, Meals coloring
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As soon as cookies are fully cooled, unfold frosting evenly over cookies (I take advantage of 2-3 teaspoons of frosting per cookie).
Sprinkles
Notes
Storing
Retailer in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as 3 days. Cookies could also be frozen for a number of months.
Strawberry pink frosting
For the cookies within the pictures I coloured the frosting pink by stirring in 1 Tablespoon of pulverized freeze-dried strawberries.
Vitamin
Serving: 1cookie | Energy: 192kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 2g | Fats: 9g | Saturated Fats: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 0.4g | Monounsaturated Fats: 2g | Trans Fats: 0.3g | Ldl cholesterol: 31mg | Sodium: 115mg | Potassium: 27mg | Fiber: 0.4g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 282IU | Vitamin C: 0.4mg | Calcium: 24mg | Iron: 1mg
Dietary info relies on third-party calculations and must be thought of an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will fluctuate primarily based upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking technique, portion sizes, and extra.
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