Pink Icing Drop Cookies

Pink Icing Cookies
Found http://allrecipes.com/recipe/11660/pink-icing-cookies/

Recipe by: Lisa Tomshack "My Granny's cake-like cookies that tasted best with pink icing...although she did use other colors."

Ingredients
25 m 24 servings 245 cals

1 cup butter
2 cups white sugar
4 eggs
1 cup milk
5 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Prep 15 m
Cook 10 m
Ready In 25 m

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a cookie sheet.

In a large bowl, cream the margarine and sugar together. Add the eggs one at a time, mix well. Stir in the milk and vanilla. Sift together the flour, salt and baking powder; stir into the creamed mixture until everything is well blended. Drop cookie dough by heaping spoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheet.

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven. The tops of the cookies should spring back to the touch like a cake. Cool on wire racks before frosting.


FROSTING

Ingredients
10 m 16 servings 186 cals

2/3 cup butter, softened
4 cups confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
(optional) 4 drops red food coloring

Directions

Prep 10 m
Ready In 10 m

In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, confectioners' sugar, and milk until light and fluffy, about 3 to 4 minutes. Beat in the vanilla and food coloring. Spread on or between cookies.