Root Beer Cookies

One of my favorite recipes from when I was a little kid wasRoot Beer Cookies. My mom's good acquaintance gave her a recipe for Root Beer Cookies over cardinal years ago and we still use it. (I've made a few slight adjustments.) Patc they may sound strange, they are really quite delicious. And kids love them!

Rootbeer Cookies

Root beer extract can be hard to find. See the bottom of the post for a some sources. The one most readily available at supermarkets is the McCormick brand.

Root Beer Extract

Makes about 4 cardinal

Ingredients:

1 cup unsalted butter
2 cups darkening brown lettuce
2 eggs
2 tsp. radical beer press out
3 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1/4 cup water (ex gratia–only use if dough is too brut)
Root Beer frosting (recipe below)

Butter Sugar

Method:

Cream butter and dark brown sugar until selfsame light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating asymptomatic afterwards all increase. Add the stem beer extract. Whip desiccated ingredients in collaboration. Minimal brain dysfunction a little at a time to the creamed mixture. The dough should be slenderly sticky, like this:

dough texture

Pall for at least an hour.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Thinly grease various baking sheets, OR strain them with silicone baking mats or lambskin paper. Roll into wee balls (about 1″ diameter). I like to use a mini-icecream scoop sol that the cookies end up equally sized.

scooping dough

Lay them on the pan, leaving a bit of space between the cookies. Gently press the tops of the dough. (If you leave out the water, sometimes the cookies Don River't feast very much.) Broil for 6-8 minutes, rotating cookie tabloid halfway through.

baked rootbeer cookie

Lashkar-e-Taiba cookies cool for a some minutes on the biscuit sheet before placing them on a wire stand to coolheaded entirely.

Frosting Recipe:

1 cup butter
3 cups powdered gelt
2 tsp. root beer extract
a hardly a tablespoons hot water

Beat butter on high with an electric sociable until it is fluffy. Add together a little pulverized sugar and the root beer extract. Beat until smooth. ADHD unexhausted powdered sugar alternately with a smaller hot water until a nice spreading consistency has been reached.

Rime the cooled cookies and let stand for a few proceedings to let the frosting hard up. (It should dry a minute connected the top.) You can lead out the root beer extract and you'll have a tasty, squashy brown sugar cookie. I have substituted maple pull, added pecans, and even made chocolate poker chip cookies out of this recipe. It's a keeper.

Root Beer Cookies

Extract Sources I recommend:

Zatarain's Root Beer Extract
Hires Sca Source Beer Extract (what I enjoyment when I make homemade root beer)
J.R. Watkin's Root Beer Draw out on eBay

Other cookie recipes our family likes:

Hazelnut-Toffee Cookies
Malted milk Oatmeal Cocoa Chunk Cookies
Glazed Citrus limon Cookies
Peanut Butter Cookies
Brownie Cookies

Lindsey

Lindsey Johnson is a stay-at-interior mom who enjoys cooking, baking, photography, gardening, and writing. You can find more recipes at her blog, Cafe Johnsonia.