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Amish Buttermilk Sugar Cookies

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Amish Buttermilk Sugar Cookies.

An old-fashioned sugar cookie. Don’t worry if you don’t have buttermilk on hand you can still use regular milk to make this recipe, just add a small spoonful of extra flour. I substitute milk for this recipe all the time. These cookies turn out very soft and moist. My Grandma used to make cookies just like these only she used shortening instead of butter.

This recipe makes about 22 large size cookies. You can make them smaller if you want. I used about a 2.5 Tablespoon cookie scoop so if you used Tablespoon sized scoops the recipe will make more.


Amish Buttermilk Sugar Cookies
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Ingredients
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) salted butter, softened
  • 2 large eggs
  • ½ cup buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • 2½ cups all purpose flour
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 F. Degrees.
  2. In a large bowl cream butter and sugar together (I hand mixed the batter).
  3. Mix in the eggs and vanilla.
  4. In a separate bowl combine the flour, baking powder, and baking soda.
  5. Add to the creamed mixture, alternately, with the buttermilk, mixing well after each addition.
  6. Drop dough by the tablespoon or with a cookie scoop onto cookie sheet.
  7. Sprinkle with coarse sugar if desired.
  8. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes, or until the edges begin to brown.

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Brown Sugar Frosting made without powdered sugar

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Old Fashioned Brown Sugar Frosting made without powdered sugar.

Brown Sugar Vanilla Buttercream Frosting made without powdered sugar is my new favorite frosting recipe! I love that this recipe is made without powdered sugar. Up until a couple years ago I had no idea you could even make frosting without powdered sugar but now I frequently make vanilla frosting using brown sugar or regular sugar.

  

This recipe is pretty forgiving & easy to make. You cook the flour and milk together on the stove (as shown above) until it becomes a thick paste then you add it to the butter/sugar mixture to make a nice whipped vanilla brown sugar buttercream frosting. If I am using the frosting to pipe on to cupcakes I sometimes add extra sugar to thicken it up more so you can add extra sugar if you need to when making it.

Note: This recipe will not taste 100% like powered sugar frosting recipes you may be used to, to me it is more whipped, creamy, & buttery. It is a little less sweet. I love it! Sometimes I find regular vanilla frosting to be too sweet. The frosting is also known to have a grainy texture to it due to the sugar being more coarse but I like it!

I always refrigerate whatever I frost, like the Vanilla Cupcakes pictured. Keeping it in the frig also helps to keep the frosting firm. Recipe frosts a whole batch of cupcakes for me, about 18 cupcakes.


Brown Sugar Frosting made without powdered sugar
 
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Ingredients
  • ½ cup milk
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • pinch of salt
  • 1½ cups light brown sugar sugar (add up to ½ cup extra brown sugar if you want it on the thick side)
  • ½ cup (1 stick) salted butter, softened
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Whisk milk, flour, and salt together in a saucepan over medium-low heat. Keep stirring until the mixture gets very thick and bubbly.
  2. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.
  3. In a mixing bowl using an electric mixer beat sugar and butter together until smooth and creamy. Beat in the cooled flour mixture until it is light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla.
  4. *Note* If you want it to be thicker you can add more sugar. This recipe is very forgiving and if you want it a really thick consistency keep adding sugar to it.

 

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Hershey’s Syrup Snacking Brownies

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Hershey’s Syrup Snacking Brownies. I found this recipe in one of my first cookbooks, “Favorite Brand Name, Best Loved Recipes of All Time” from 1996.

I was a little skeptical about this recipe, but it’s really really good! It was hands down the EASIEST brownie recipe I have every make from scratch.

 

 

 

Hershey's Syrup Snacking Brownies
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 36
Ingredients
  • ½ cup soft butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1½ cups Hershey's syrup
  • 4 eggs
  • 1¼ cups flour
  • 1 cup chocolate chips
  • powdered sugar for sprinkling on top after they are baked (optional)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 9x13 pan.
  2. In large bowl mix butter and sugar together. Add syrup, eggs and flour mix until combined. Stir in chips. Pour batter into greased ban.
  3. Bake 30 to 35 mins. Let cool. sprinkle with powdered sugar.

 

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