Fat Emma Cookies

These delicious Fat Emma cookies have been in our family for years! They are similar to sugar cookies, except they are a little fluffier or "fatter" and they have an extra delicious flavor because they are made with buttermilk. Plus, they are way easier because you don't have to roll them out and cut them and then roll them out again! You just roll them into little balls like other cookies. They are a perfectly delicious cookie! Even ask Micah...

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar

1 cup butter

1 tsp vanilla

3 eggs

1 cup buttermilk

5 cups flour

2 tsp baking soda

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Cream the softened butter with the sugar in a mixing bowl and beat for 2 minutes. Add the vanilla and the eggs one at a time beating well between each one.

Mix the dry ingredients together and add half of them to the sugar- butter mixture beating until the flour is no longer visible. Then alternate adding half of the buttermilk and beat just until smooth. The next step is to add the rest of the flour mixture and beat just until mixed in. Then add the rest of the buttermilk and beat until smooth. (If you beat them too much they will get tough.)

The dough will be sticky. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for 1 hour, until it is stiff. Roll the dough into balls that are one inch in diameter. Drop them onto a greased cookie sheet and flatten them slightly.

Bake at 350 for 10 minutes, but don't brown, if you bake them too long they will dry out.

Let the cookies cool completely and then frost them with buttercream frosting.

Buttercream Frosting:

1 – 1 lb. box Powdered Sugar

1/4 cup milk

1 tsp vanilla

1 cube softened butter

Place all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl and beat them for 2 minutes. For a thinner consistency add a little more milk.

Enjoy!