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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 absolute favorite cookies are peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip. The gritty texture mixed with the zip of peanut butter and chocolate is perfect when paired with a big glass of milk. Yum
I love anything with the chocalate & peanut butter combo. Cookies with Reese’s cups in the middle are so addicting!
Ummm, pretty sure once I try these they’ll be my favorite. My mom’s chocolate chip cookies are my all-time favorite though. Her’s are the best…doesn’t everyone say that about their mom’s cookies though?
I love pretty much every type of cookie but shortbread will have to be my favorite.
My favorite is chocolate chip with walnuts fresh out of the oven with my secret ingredient….cinnamon.
I am pretty sure this is my new favorite cookie!
Sugar cookies w/ frosting and sprinkles!
I ADORE Snickerdoodles and classic chocolate chips..but I (almost) love the cookie dough just as much!
Frosted sugar cookies!!!!!!!!!!
It’s so hard to choose just one! My all-time favorite would have to be the Oatmeal Craisin cookies my mom makes around the holidays. Although chocolate chip is a close second. There’s something so comforting about a warm chocolate chip cookie and a big glass of ice cold milk!
I love chocolate chip the best! Can’t beat a classic! Love your blog, btw!
Oatmeal chocolate chip pecan! yummmmmmmm
My favorite cookies would have to be my moms white chocolate , cranberry oatmeal cookies!
Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chip (baked and unbaked!)
My Grandma Harmon sugar cookie (made from scratch) with homemade frosting. She was the best baker and chef. I am so glad that she taught me all of the family secret recipe’s so I can continue the tradition. Her secret to the sugar cookies is Hy-Vee stick margarine. I live in Windom, Mn so I use Hy-Vee brand alot. Miss you Grandma Harmon!!!
My favorite cookies are the frosted molasses cookies from Palmer’s Deli. Yum.
I absolutely love the standard chocolate chip cookie (with extra vanilla!), but will also go crazy for peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.
I love peanut butter chocolate chip cookies!!
OMG, those look amazing! My favorite kind of cookie is chocolate chip.
My favorite cookie are Molasses cookies! Yum, yum! I’m anxious to try the soft sugar cookie recipe!
I love soft, molasses cookies like my grandma used to make!
Chocolate chip is my favorite!!
My favorite cookie is anything with chocolate – the more, the better
I love chocolate cookies with andes mint chips – amazing!
Oh my!! My favorite is a good, classic, chewy chocolate chip cookie!
My favorite type of cookie?? Wow, that’s a hard one. But I’d have to say a sugar cookie with frosting. Those cookies make my heart happy.
My Favorite cookies are homemade soft sugar cookies with icing. Yummmm….
White chocolate macadamia! Or peanut butter chocolate chip…..
Definitely a soft and fluffy chocolate chip cookie!
So many to choose from, but a new favorite from a local grocery store is a soft and chewy chocolate, cherry chunk. My son is all about everything “cookie dough” and I would love to own this book! Everytime his birthday rolls around I’m looking for a new and different “cookie dough” recipe. Thanks!
I have to say that I love snickerdoodles. They are so soft and sweet. I could eat those all day!
Chocolate chip. Chewy, with less chocolate chips!
One my friends makes rolo cookies, which are all chocolate cookies with a rolo stuck in the middle. She will bring them a few times to our Iowa Football tailgates and believe me, they don’t last long!
My fav is oatmeal raisin. Yum!!
i love all cookies but my favorite is a good ol ooey gooey chocolate chip cookie <3
My favorite cookie is peanut butter chip chocolate cookies. Peanut butter and chocolate is the most amazing combo.
My favorite cookie is the Chocolate Crinkle Cookie. Love reading all your entries and looking at all your colorfull photos.
I love a big, soft, chocolate chip cookie! Or snickerdoodles. Or white chocolate macademia nut cookies. Oh who am I kidding, I love all cookies!
I love me a big, gooey chocolate chip cookie.
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal cookies – and they’re healthy! A few years ago, a friend of mine was going through some rough times and was far away at a different college. I sneakily found out her favorite cookie type and changed a few ingredients to make them better for you, and they turned out to be both our favorite cookies.
Monster Cookies!!!!!!
Snicker Doodle!! Love the cinnamon sugar combo – brings me back to my childhood! Being outside all day long in the summer with all the neighborhood kids playing and getting dirty, my mom would make these for the whole neighborhood! I want one now!
You really can’t go wrong with a classic chocolate chip cookie warm out of the oven with a big glass of cold milk! If I could only have 1 dessert for the rest of my life this would be it!
pumpkin chocolate chip is good anytime of the year!! but I’m always down for a soft oatmeal raisin cookie!
I LOOOOVE Peanut butter cookies! I could eat them all day long. They are delicious!
I can’t get enough of lemon ricotta cookies in the summer! However, if I’m being honest, those brimming-with-preservative sugar cookies with the thick slab of seasonally colored frosting that they sell at places like Target are essentially crack to me. I could eat a whole container… Gross but sooooo good.
What a fun cookbook! Anything with peanut butter, I absolutely LOVE!!!
Can’t beat chocolate chip but there are many varieties of this old favorite and I think I have baked most of them. Today I will bake 100 M&M and Chocolate Chip cookies (50 of each is the plan) for tomorrow’s Relay for Life in my town.
Would love to win the book.
Oh boy, what’s my fave cookie? Hmmm… I’d have to say chocolate chip. No wait! Frosted sugar cookies! No… chocolate chip! Ugh! Do I have to pick?
My favorite cookie would either be an oatmeal cookie or snickerdoodles. It’s hard to pick just one!