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Raise your hand if you love cookie dough!
Me too. Cuckoo enough for it that I jumped (read: did the Oo! Oo! Me! Me! dance inside my head) at the chance to review fellow food blogger Lindsay Landis’ cookbook dedicated entirely to the topic – The Cookie Dough Lover’s Cookbook!
I’ve been reading Lindsay’s blog Love & Olive Oil for ages, and went completely nuts over the eggless Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls she posted a couple years ago. Turns out I’m not the only one, and after the recipe became an online smash, she decided to write a cookbook with 50 recipes featuring homemade, egg-free, raw cookie dough. Brills!
In addition to being a cookie dough addict and food blogger, Lindsay is also a graphic designer and it totally shows in her cookbook. Not only does each recipe sound totally mouthwatering – Cookie Dough Billionaire Bars, anyone? – but the photographs and book design are absolutely gorgeous.
After eagerly flipping through the book, I quickly settled on the first recipe I’d try: Soft Sugar Cookies with Cookie Dough Frosting.
Puffy, fluffy sugar cookies slathered in a thick, cookie-dough flavored frosting.
RIGHT?!
Now, before you go into sugar shock from the recipe name alone, I have to tell you that this cookie is perfectly sweet. Just, perfect! Sweet but not too sweet. You’ll see. 
Start the soft sugar cookies by creaming together vegetable shortening and sugar. The vegetable shortening is what helps make these cookies light and fluffy.
Next crack in a couple eggs (I had to learn how to do this one handed after Ben one-upped me with his cracking skillz while making omelets the other day.)
Followed by heavy cream and vanilla extract. Lindsay went really heavy on the vanilla in both the cookie and frosting recipe, which I appreciate.
Mmmkay, wet ingredients – done!
Next, add dry ingredients like flour, salt, and both baking soda and baking powder to help make the cookies puff up.
At this point the dough should be soft, but not sticky. Eggs be damned – it tastes delicious too! 
Refrigerate the dough for at least 30 minutes, then roll, cut and bake the cookies. Tip: use 2 dowel rods as rolling pin guides to achieve uniform thickness when rolling out dough. Just keep them on the cutting board and roll right over ‘em!
While the cookies are cooling, whip up the cookie dough frosting that’s going to be slathered on top. First, cream together butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
Beat in flour, salt and vanilla extract,
followed by powdered sugar and heavy cream.
I CANNOT GET OVER THIS STUFF! I wanted to stick my entire face in the bowl!
Instead I swirled a thick coating of the frosting on top of each cookie.
The final step is to dot the top of each cookie with mini chocolate chips.
Lindsey? Thanks.
Soft Sugar Cookies with Cookie Dough Frosting
Makes 24 cookies
From The Cookie Dough Lover’s Cookbook, by Lindsay Landis (re-printed here with permission)
Ingredients:
For the cookies:
1/2 cup vegetable shortening, at room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
4 cups all-purpose flour (or more as needed)
For the frosting:
3/4 cups unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/3 cup light brown sugar, backed
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 cups powdered sugar, or more as needed
1/3 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips
Directions:
1. In a large mixing bowl, beat together shortening and sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add heavy creamy and vanilla and beat until smooth. Add salt, baking soda, and baking powder, followed by the flour, 1 cup at a time, mixing until dough comes together. Dough should be soft but not sticky; if it is sticky, add more flour, 1 Tablespoon at a time as needed. Cover and refrigerate at least 30 minutes, or overnight.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Roll out dough to 3/8 inch thick. Cut it into 3-inch circles and transfer to baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Bake 8-10 minutes, or until tops are puffed and no longer shiny and bottoms are just barely golden brown. Do not overbake. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
3. To prepare frosting, beat together butter and brown sugar in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy, about 2 to 3 minutes. Mix in flour and salt, followed by vanilla. Add 4 cups of the powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add heavy cream, and beat until fluffy. Add more powdered sugar as necessary, 1/4 cup at a time, until frosting is thick yet spreadable.
4. With an offset spatula, spread 1 heaping Tablespoon of frosting onto each cookie. Sprinkle with chocolate chips, pressing lightly so chips adhere to frosting. Refrigerated in an airtight container, frosted cookies will keep for up to 3 days.
These cookies will blow, your mind. The cookie is soft, and the frosting – the luscious cookie dough frosting! – is absolutely unreal. You will want to slather it on everything. A steak, your shoe, the dog… What a recipe!
The Cookie Dough Lover’s Cookbook Giveaway
Get a chance to make, taste, and see for yourself, by entering to win a copy of The Cookie Dough Lover’s Cookbook!
Enter to win one cookbook by leaving a comment telling me your favorite type of cookie by Thursday, June 14 at 12pm central.
Good luck – and may the cookie dough flavored frosting be with you!
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Chocolate Chip – a true classic.
best/most favorite cookie ever-homemade peanut butter chocolate chip OR a sugar cookie with the most amazing almond frosting from a darling little bakery by my house
Those can’t be real… already on my baking pinterest list!
While I love a good sugar or peanut butter cookie, M&M or chocolate chip win because they have chocolate in them!
Monster cookies! Hands down!
I love a thick and chewy chocolate chip cookie with LOTS of chocolate chips, and white chocoloate chips, and peanut butter chips, and butterscotch chips (need I go on?)
snickerdoodles!!
oatmeal chocolate chip cookies!
Grandms’s Orange Slice cookies!
Sugar cookies are legit my favorite cookie…this post has me drooling and hoping I have all of these ingredients in my cupboards!
I love making Krumkakke at Christmas – it’s a Norwegian cookie that is basically like a waffle cone. Filled with whipped cream and berries, they are my absolute favorite cookie.
chocolate chip cookies!
My absolute favorite cookies, from being a little kid to being a big kid
now, are Chocolate Chip cookies. There’s just something about the cookie and that chocolate, a bit of heaven!
My favorite cookie, right now, is one that I made: cookie spread oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. They are so good. I used trader joe’s cookie spread instead of peanut butter and they gave it a hint of cinnamon sweetness. Delicious! But I’m always on the hunt for new cookie recipes
Oh my – my best friend would be absolutely thrilled to have a copy of this cookbook!
My favorite cookie is hands down the vegan chocolate chip cookie that I created the other week. So good, I’ve forced myself NOT to make them again for fear of eating the entire batch!
Oatmeal chocolate chip of course!! And I’m guilty of eating the uncooked batter every time – you just have to!!
monster cookies!
Yum, do I ever want to win this book. My favourite cookie is chocolate peanut butter with chocolate chips – why have only one awesome thing in your cookie at a time?
My moms iced chocolate chip cookies. She always uses milk chocolate chips and her famous icing recipe. Yum!
Compost cookies.. any recipe that involves ingredients from candy to potato chips is my kind of recipe!
My favorite cookie would honestly be a tie between a classic chocolate chip cookie and a frosted sugar cookie…so I am definitely going to make this recipe (it looks incredible!!) and I hope I win the cook book! Great giveaway!
Either the lemon cookies from Paradise Bakery…or sour cream sugar cookies. YUM!
Chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips (aka my mom’s specialty)!
I love plain sugar cookies!
I’m a chocolate chip cookie kind of girl-but I’m very picky. They have to be the thick kind, chew on the inside, crunch around the edges, with a combination of dark and semi sweet chocolate chips. (MMMM.)
Omg these look delish! The only ingredient I need is heavy cream … Headed to grocery soon.
My favorite cookie is anything with white chocolate chips!
Without a doubt, snickerdoodles! Gotta love the cinnamon-sugary goodness
My favorite homemade cookies are koulourakia but my favorite store bought are Lofthouse cookies. Oh My! They are phenomenal.
soft sugar cookies with frosting is my exact favorite kind of cookie, can’t wait to try these!
I love a good molasses cookie!
Peanut butter chocolate chip!
I live for peanutbutter cookies…but only if they are homemade
My favorite cookie would have to be a snickerdoodle… Although I love cookie dough and would love to be the new owner of this book, so please pick me!
Soft sugar cookies bring back such great memories of being a kid!
Warm out of the oven chocolate chip cookies! Ohhh!!
I love making my own version of chocolate chip cookies which have milk chocolate, white chocolate and butterscotch chips in them…so so yummy!
My favorite is the classic chocolate chip cookie!
Butterscotch oatmeal raisin. I froze five dozen dough balls last week and we’ve already baked over half of them. I love baking them in small batches so they are fresh and soft. Yum!
My favorite cookies are monster cookies.
Sugar cookies are actually my favorite cookie! It would be chocolate chip cookies, but I usually just eat the cookie dough since that’s way better. Can’t wait to try out these cookies!
White chocolate macadamia nut!
The classic… my mom’s chocolate chip cookies!
I love monster cookies!
My favorite are chocolate chip cookies – soft in the middle, slightly crispy around the edges, with melty chocolate chips. Bonus if they have walnuts
Crispy oatmeal cookies with white chocolate and sea salt…they are so much better than you could even imagine!
Good old fashioned chocolate chip. But I usually like recipes that have lots of brown sugar and even some dark brown sugar. That’s my favorite.
My coworker’s sister makes these amazing butterfinger cookies, they are to die for!
I love the girl scout cookie samoas!
I’ve been reading Lindsay’s blog for over 3 years, and I NEED this book!
Fave cookie = white chocolate macadamia nut, baby.