BUTTER COOKIES FLOWER RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Stir together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
• In a separate bowl, beat together butter, Sunflower Seed Butter and both sugars until fluffy.
• Beat in eggs and vanilla.
• Gradually beat in flour mixture.
• Wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate until well chilled, about 2-4 hours.
• Roll tablespoonfuls of dough into balls with your hands. Place about 3 inches apart on ugreased baking sheets. Dip a fork in flour and press onto tops of cookies, making a criss-cross pattern on each cookie.
• Bake for about 10 minutes, or until golden brown. Careful not to burn the bottoms. Cool on baking sheets for a minute, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely before eating.

Steps:

• Beat 1 cup softened butter with white sugar in a large bowl until creamy. Beat egg, whole milk, and 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract into butter mixture until smooth. Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl and gradually stir dry ingredients into moist ingredients to make a smooth dough. Chill dough in refrigerator for 2 to 3 hours.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Dust a pastry cloth or kitchen towel generously with flour.
• Divide dough into thirds and roll each third out 1/8-inch thick on the prepared pastry cloth. Cut shapes out of the rolled dough with cookie cutters. Place cookies onto ungreased baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are barely browned, 5 to 8 minutes. Let cookies cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes before removing to finish cooling on a wire rack.
• Beat 1 cup softened butter, 3 cups confectioners' sugar, 1 1/2 tablespoons vanilla extract, and evaporated milk in a bowl until smooth. Gradually stir 6 cups confectioners' sugar into mixture until combined. Beat frosting hard until fluffy; stir in additional evaporated milk or confectioners' sugar if needed to reach desired consistency. Frost cooled cookies.