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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!
A hot out of the oven Chocolate Chip Cookie! Nothing beats it!!
I love ALL cookies but super soft frosted sugar cookies are so yummy tied with chocolate chip fresh out of the oven! WITH a big glass of milk!
milk chocolate chip all the way!
Good old chocolate chip is my favorite!
i’ve always loved snickerdoodles…although these look like they could be a new favorite!
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip!!!!!!
My two favorite are sugar cookies with frosting or snickerdoodles! Yum!
I love gingerbread cookies!
Well of course my favorite is chocolate chip cookie, but not just any will do. My husband has perfected the recipe and he’s damn proud of it! I usually end up eating the dough before they hit the oven though.
Oatmeal chocolate chip, YUM!
My favorite cookies are snickerdoodles. My grandmother always made the best. But THIS cookie looks like something I need to eat. Pronto.
Soft chewy ginger/molasses cookies….oh ya and my grandmothers boiled rasin cookies….soooo sooo good…
Chocolate chip cookies are by far my favorite!
I LOVE Magic Cookie Bars. LOVE LOVE LOVE them! But Chocolate Covered Katie’s Deep Cookie Pie is right up there!! (:
Oatmeal chocolate chip!
Whole wheat chocolate chip jumbo cookie!)
My all time favorite cookie is the the Peanut Butter Blossom… seriously can’t stop at one.
Favorite type of cookie, eh? That’s tough!! haha I would have to say gingerbreads are my favorite!
Just out of the oven…Chocolate chip..or gingerbread…or pumpkin. Depends on the season
Just a classic Chocolate Chip Cookie made with Vanilla Pudding in the mix. So soft and gooey!!
I love sugar cookies with icing!
our household favorite is Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies of course! Simple & kinda ole fashion but still the best!
Milk chocoate and butterscotch chip! Made with whole wheat flour for an extra grainy taste.
Chocolate crinkles! but quite frankly, I don’t think I’ve met a cookie that I haven’t liked
I enjoy the peanut butter cookies & the chocolate chip cookies the best!
My all-time favorite is a delicious peanut butter cookie. Nothing beats it! Especially those ones that have the kiss on top, so good!
My grandpa’s molasses cookies! I just made a bunch to share with the senior ladies in our church today, and they were so gracious about it. Molasses can be addictive-who knew? On a side note, I totally made the Love and Olive Oil Cookie Dough Balls and sabotaged my hubbies diet this week. They.were.so.yummy!
I just HAVE to get away from this page! too yummy looking…
M&M or Snickerdoodle.. however I think those cookies may be a new favorite. Can’t wait to try this recipe!
nothing beats a classic chocolate chip cookie!!!
Soft & gooey ginger molasses cookies are my fav!!
Definitely Snickerdoodle!
I love chocolate chip cookies —- and vintage cookie jars!
Hot chocolate cookies! Coco cookies with a piece of dark chocolate right in the center and a marshmallow on top, to boot! Can you say YES PLEASE?!?!
I love big fancy frosted sugar cookies!
Homemade oreos are yummy too!
monster cookies!!
My favorite cookie is Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip! yum yum!
Classic Chocolate Chip!! if I’m feeling dangerous I go for chocolate butterscotch.
Salted Mudslide cookies from howsweeteats.com! Absolutely delicious!!
My favorite type of cookie is ANYTHING with white chocolate chips! Yum!
Monster cookies! Thanks for the give-away!
My favorite cookie is a snicker doodle!
If the cookie has peanut butter than I am all over it
Cookies in my mouth, cookies in my pants.. All day long I want me some cookies
I love pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. They are soooo yummy!!
My very first job was working the cookie cart for the best cookie store in the mall/or some could say the best bakery in town, The Cookie Jar! So, I must say I’ve been a cookie baking -aholic since before I was old enough to work!! My favorite cookie is definitely a homemade frosted sugar cookie!! But I don’t descriminate against cakes or anything baked:). I can’t wait to bake these puppies! Ps- I absolutely love your blog!
I’ve never met a cookie I didn’t like, but my favorite has to be my Mom’s Christmas Cookies. They’re red, white, and green almond spritz and it is *impossible* to eat just one.
Gingerbread! They taste like the Holidays.
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