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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!
My fav is peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. I also make a combo peanut butter choc chip/brownie cookie. My son and I call them peanut butter brookies…
Monster cookies!!! has a little bit of everything!
My fave is chocolate chip made with butterscotch chips instead-yum!
Peanut butter all the way!!
i love peanut butter cookies, they will always be my favorite. however, if you throw mix nuts or trail mix into any dessert, i won’t pass it up!
No bake chocolate oatmeal cookies
I’m old school and my favorite is chocolate chip…and I’m a bit embarrassed to admit I don’t usually eat them cooked.
You can’t beat classic chocolate chip! Yum!
Oh my goodness, we have to pick ONE favorite cookie??? Hmmmm…Chew Chocolate Ginger Cookies. No wait, oatmeal butterscotch. On second thought, a really good chocolate chip cookie always does the trick. Or chocolate cookies with Reese’s PB Chips. There are just too many wonderful options!
Oatmeal Butterscotch cookies!
We love peanut butter cookies with mini peanut butter cups in the middle!
It is hard to choose a favorite! But I would have to say lemon cookies or the orange cookies that my grandma makes!
I’m a sucker for a good chewy chocolate chip cookie! I also love oatmeal raisin and peanut butter! Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve had a cookie I didn’t like! Win this book or not, I’d love to know where I can get a copy!
Peanut Butter
I love, love, love cookies. No cake for me, just pass the cookies. While it is hard to pick a favorite, I love molasses cookies. My Grandma Emma always had cookies in the cookie jar, and more often than not it was molasses cookies. I have her recipe and another favorite soft spice/molasses cookie that you can dip into white chocolate. Yum!!
Chocolate chip peanut butter cookies… Although that might change once I make those!
Good old fashioned chocolate chip!
Favorite type of cookie is chocolate chip! But, most of the time I like to eat more dough than cookies!
My favorite is these italian pineapple cookies my grandma makes. But to be completely honest, I have a huge sweet tooth and almost any kind of cookie is good with me!
My favorite kind of cookie is those soft sugar cookies with frosting from the store – Lofthouse cookies!!!
Frosted Gingerbread cookies – I love them for the taste and for the holiday season they represent!
I LOVE the chocolate crinkle cookies you posted at Christmastime, they were so yum yum!!
Wow! My husband loves cookie dough so this cook book would be PERFECT.
My favorite cookies are classic soft, gooey chocolate chip. But, we recently traveled to Argentina and I fell in love with Alfajores! YUM.
Chocolate Chocolate Chip
Sugar with M & M’s.
I make batch of choc chip cookie dough and instead of adding choc chips I use pecans and cinnamon chips. soo good!
What ISN’T my favorite type of cookie, gosh! Oatmeal chocolate chip is a top contender. Also chai cookies with butter cream frosting. However, if I win that cookbook, I can tell you those will probably be usurped by one of the amazing goodies within!
Cookie dough frosting?! could life get any better! Thanks for sharing
Check out my bean salad recipe @ bakingblissful.blogspot.com
My favorite cookie is a generously frosted sugar cookie & my favorite dough is hands down, chocolate chip so I can hardly wait to try this recipe!
I love any cookie with frosting!
White Chocolate Macademia Nut is by far my favorite, but I will eat any cookie without any predijust
I love a warm chocolate chip cookie!
Wow! I have to say regular chocolate chip cookies are my favorite, but I just made some peanut butter cookies last night for my husband, and I can’t wait to get home and add some cookie dough frosting to them. Thanks for the recipe!
Looove me some Andes mint chocolate cookies! Delish and so simple to make!
Cookies are by far one of my favorite sweet treats..choosing one is hard..but, there’s just something about a perfectly cooked chocolate chip cookie!! That has to be my favorite
My favorite to make are chocolate chocolate chip because the dough is so tasty to sneak while I make them
BUT my most recent favorite to eat are these Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies I found on http://www.howsweeteats.com
I love sugar cookies with cream cheese frosting and peanut butter m&m cookies!!
Oatmeal cinnamon, but for a bar cookie… M&M Dream Bars. YUM!
One cookie? That’s tough but I have to say Oatmeal Chocolate Chip (when they turn out!)
Warm Chocolate Chunk!!! Maybe even not cooked at all!
I absolutely love sweets – that is my weakness. I am always a sucker for white chocolate chip with macadamia nut cookies! They are perfect mix
Might have to make a batch now.
Monster cookies! The dough, freshly cooked, and frozen…..all good!
my favorite cookies are ginger snaps! they remind me of my grandma and that just makes me smile
she used to always keep her cookie jar stocked with them, because she knew they were my favorite. I don’t think anyone else even liked them…bonus for me!!
Oatmeal Raisin!! It’s just one of those classically, good types of cookies.
It’s hard to pick just one! But I LOVE my Grandma’s ginger cookies!!
my favorite is chocolate chip
That’s a tough one because I’m a cookie freak but i would say my Mom’s homemade Monster Cookies are my fav!! Anything with peanut butter really!
I absolutely LOVE my aunt’s (from Iowa!) oatmeal chocolate chip cookie dough recipe. I make it when I can but the combination is perfect!
We love my dad’s pignolis, which he adapted from my Aunt’s recipe. It a piece of home, California. We have’t tried to make them in the Colorado altitude yet, but hoping they turn out just like his.
Thanks for all the fun recipes.
My mom makes the BEST Pumpkin Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies. Those would definately have to be my favorite..although she’s never made cookie dough frosting…