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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!
Actually, my favorite kind of cookie is the classic chocolate chip. Chewy, not crispy, please. Or rolo-filled chocolate cookies. Those are pretty tasty too.
Chocolate chip arey favorite, but they have to be soft cookies.
My favorite cookie is my great grandmother’s chocolate chip oatmeal cookie recipe. My parents sent me a whole box while deployed in the Middle East and it was the best gift I’ve ever received, a little taste of home. Also my sister and I would make a tradition of eating the cookie dough on stormy nights and watch the lightening show. So many wonderful lasting memories with those cookies
Chocolate Chip although PB sandwich cookies are a close second
My favorite cookie is oreo cream cheese balls covered in chocolate & frozen – delicious
Good old chocolate chip for me!
My favorite is the basic chocolate chip cookie.
I’m currently addicted to the Malted Milk Chocolate Chip cookies that PW has posted on her site. DE.LI.CIOUS! I make them far too often.
the perfect choc chip cookie (using dark chocolate, three diff kinds of sugar and sea salt) recipe from a fab blog: not without salt. but espresso choc shortbread cookies would be a very close second.
Triple chocolate cookies: chocolate cookies with milk and white chocolate chips!
My favorite cookie is a sugar cookie, baked on a jelly roll pan, frosted with orange marmelade, and drizzled with dark, semi-sweet, or white chocolate.
My mom’s sugar cookies (which she bakes only in the holidays) are my all-time favorites!
oatmeal chocolate chip!
Its a tie between Monster cookies and these pumpkin white chocolate chip cookies that I kept making last fall! Delish!
when it comes to packaged cookies, definitely samoas, but I like just a basic homemade chocolate chip cookie, made by my mom
they’re always the best that way!
I love all your recipes as I have told you on several occasions! I however leave my baking to my sister & will be sure to give her this recipe! She is an AMAZING baker, she makes me stuff to bring into work all the time and the have nicknamed her “cupcake 77″. I would love to get this book for her!!! I love a good lemon cookie or a cookie with craisins, white chocolate, & macadamia nuts! Yum…
I am a huge fan of cookies with frosting on them. The more frosting the better!
Sounds bizarre….but I love choc chip cookie dough without the choc chips added. It’s almost like a sugar cookie, but better!
My favorite is double chocolate chip cookies or fudge chocolate chip cookies!! Yum!
My all time favorite would have to be Mom’s secret recipe chocolate chip cookies. They won me a blue ribbon at the county fair back in the day. Perfectly crunchy on the outside with a gooey chewy center.
Who doesn’t love a good cookie. But how can you narrow it down to just ONE?!?! Obviously I am always weak to a classic chocolate chip! However can’t forget about peanut butter cookies (throw a kiss on top around the holidays)! I guess if I had to choose just one it would have to be a monster cookie with chocolate chips and M&M’s!
I am an Oatmeal Chocolate Chip girl all the way!
GAH! It’s hard to pick one favorite cookie but I’ll never turn down a soft, chocolate chip cookie…or probably any other type. Cookies rule.
My favorite cookie is my moms craisin and white chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. They are amazing!
my favorite cookie is oatmeal chocolate chip! So tasty!
Chocolate Chip Cookies are the best.
Depending on my mood of course, I’d have to say white chocolate macadamia are my fave
My favorite have to be chocolate oatmeal cookies, i love those <3
I looooove monster cookies! Peanut butter and chocolate – you can’t go wrong!
Double chocolate with dried cherries. Or, as I call them, PMS cookies
Monster Cookies – oatmeal, peanut butter – surely they are healthy!
My grandma’s sugar cookies. These were such a treat when we visited her and, today, she still makes them for all of her adult grandchildren!
Chocolate caramel sea salt cookies. AWESOME.
Chocolate chip!
Monster Cookies!
Chocolate chip cookies!!! Especially when they are a bit underdone
This book looks right up my alley! My favorite cookie is actually the NY Times choc. chip! It’s seriously addicting!
White chocolate macadamia nut cookies that are thin and slightly warm….like Subway’s version, but better when homemade! OR Perfect chocolate chip cookies. YUM
white chocolate macadamia nut – YUMMY!
Hard to pick a favorite, but I am sucker for Snickerdoodles! MMM!
OATMEAL COOKIES! No raisins or anything else. Just plain warm oatmeal cookies. This post is going to make me sabotage my healthy eating plans tonight. Thanks for that!!!
A real hearty oatmeal raisin cookie…YUM.
Peanut butter, oats and chocolate chip cookies! I made them last night and totally went on a cookie dough bender.. I’m talking 4-5 spoonfulls straight to my mouth. Whoops!
My favorite cookie by far is a double dark chocolate biscotti-like cookie with pistacios. Looks like a traditional biscotti but not crispy/crunchy. It’s soft and fudgy in texture like a brownie with pistacios. Now i’ll need to dig up the recipe!
chocolate chip cookies (made using a french vanilla pudding with the dry ingredients) makes them super moist & tasting like cookie dough!
My favorite cookies is a soft warm, chocolate chip cookie, but my favorite cookie dough is sugar cookie dough
This recipe has the best of both worlds!
My favorite cookie is the chocolate chip cookie….dough! Hey it counts, right?
monster cookies in any form… bars, cookies, dough… mmmmm
My favorite type of cookie is pumpkin butterscotch chip!
Freshly baked chocolate chunk. Classic!