Cookie Monster Cookies

Does anybody else use this app called Timehop? It just tells you whatever you did on this date in your social media history, so usually it's just embarrassing. But sometimes it makes me like painfully nostalgic. For example, the picture up there came up on my Timehop last week and it reminded me of this night three summers ago where three of my best friends and I made Cookie Monster cupcakes! They were pretty cute, and pretty tasty, and the whole night was a blast. Yesterday when 3/4 of us were reunited (sorry, Shanna! we missed you), intending to bake something, we decided to recreate these masterpieces, except on sugar cookies this time. 

Grandma Myers' Sugar Cookies- originally from the cookbook First Capitol Favorites (presented by the Young Women's Club of York)

Ingredients

Cookies
1 stick of butter, room temperature

1 cup of sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon of vanilla

¾ cup of buttermilk

½ teaspoon of baking soda

2½ teaspoons of baking powder

2½ cups of flour

Decorations

1 stick of butter

1 teaspoon of vanilla

4 cups of powdered sugar

3 tablespoons of milk

blue food coloring

1 bag of white chocolate melting wafers

1 bag of chocolate chips

1 bag of mini Chips Ahoy

Directions

These cookies are perhaps my favorite dessert to ever come out of my grandma's kitchen. They're not like normal sugar cookies, they're like mini fluffy cakes. So simple, but so so yummy. To start, cream the butter and sugar together until it's nice and fluffy. Then add in the eggs and vanilla, followed by the milk, and then all of the dry ingredients. Easy as that. Bake them at 350 on a parchment lined pan, but the time depends on how big you want them. Grandma makes big huge cookies, so the whole batter only yields 16 2½ inch cookies. For that size, bake for 12 minutes. I made mine just using a tablespoon cookie scoop and they were pretty normal sized, and yielded 42 cookies. Those baked for 9 minutes. 

Once they're cool, it's time to decorate! Make the frosting by creaming the butter, adding the vanilla, then mixing in the powdered sugar and milk back and forth. Then tint it blue, preferably using a gel food coloring. This will require a lot of coloring, and gel is better because it doesn't affect the texture. Spread the blue frosting all over the cookies using a fork, which will give it the furry texture. Then, while the frosting is still wet (or if not, dab some extra on the back) add two white chocolate wafers to each cookie for the eyes, and then put chocolate chips on top. It's better to make the eyes "googly" or else they kind of look like zombies (see if you can find the zombie one below). Then cut the Chips Ahoy cookies in half and put one on each for the mouth. Again, if the frosting is too dry for any of the elements to stick, just dab some extra on it. And you're done! Now you can show off to all your friends.

Can you find the scary one?

Reviews

The greatest part about these is how cute they are. The appearance is really what sells it. But when you get down to it, what is really better than a sugar cookie with frosting? My BFF Sierra says that these were the fluffiest sugar cookies she's had except for Brown's, and that is high praise. And her little brother Ollie didn't want to let anyone else eat the rest of the cookies, he wanted all four of the ones she brought home! All in all, fun for kids and kids at heart!