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Brown Sugar Cookie Recipe

"with golden glow rum butter frosting!"


brown sugar cookie recipe
This brown sugar cookie recipe is all about the golden glow rum butter frosting. It will make you slap your momma!

Many Italian dessert recipes use liquor. And often! You can make this brown sugar cookie recipe without the frosting. But why? Don't click away. There are several substitutions for the frosting ingredients. Are you out of rum? Then go to the store and get some! This is gossip-talk-good-frosting. Too, you will give your kids bragging rights as at school. I felt like a elementary school rebel when I would tell all the kids about the Italian desserts I had with rum or bourbon.

But I never impressed anyone. My friends were Italian too. *Sigh*




Brown Sugar Cookie Recipe

Don't forget the frosting!


YIELD - Makes 3 dozen brown sugar cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup butter shortening (yes, you read right - "shortening")

1/4 cup buttermilk or water (yes, I have used water and it turns out ok)

1 large egg

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

Golden Glow Rum Butter Frosting (see below)

Procedure

 Mix brown sugar, shortening, and buttermilk, and egg.

Stir in flour, baking soda, and salt.

Cover dough and stick it in the 'fridge for a bit.

Heat oven to 400. (Yep, that is 400) Drop dough by rounded teaspoonsful about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake until almost no indentation when you touch it. About 8-10 minutes.

Immediately remove. Let cool. Then frost.



Golden Glow Rum Butter Frosting

 1/2 cup of butter

3 cups powdered sugar

enough rum to make spreadable (about 1/3 cup)

Procedure

 Place the butter in small pan over low heat.

Wait until butter bubbles and begins to brown.

Stir while browning to keep from scorching.

Once golden remove from heat

Add powdered sugar and mix.

Add rum.

Lick fingers and frost cookies.

And have a rum and coke.






Can I substitute butter in place of the shortening?

First off let me BOLDY state - I HATE SHORTENING! That is one reason why I mentioned this cookie is bland - shortening. But to come to my own soapbox defense, here's why you need the shortening, to get the lift on the cookie. So, yes you "can" use butter but your cookies will spread.

To frost or not to frost?

So, you may not frost these, right? You are wanting to focus on just the brown sugar cookie recipe part, right? Okay, then I would highly suggest using butter instead of shortening. You will get a much richer flavor. They will spread, but you will make up in taste with the butter since you are losing the butter in the frosting.

What can I use instead of rum for the frosting?

Here's some options:

  • rum flavoring


  • almond flavoring


  • walnut flavoring


  • bourbon




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    lisa gianotti I love sugar and I eat dessert EVERYDAY! Ok, not MASSIVE amounts. But I do have to finish off the evening meal with a little sweet something.

    When I was a kid my health conscience mother would ration my Halloween candy. Her mantra was, "white sugar will kill you". But my Italian grandma always told me, "Everybody needs a little bit of sugar." :-) So, to get my October Halloween sugar fix I will make the traditional Italian cookie recipe, Venetian Bones of the Dead. Italians make these for the Day of the Dead on November 2nd. So - hey, our holiday in America - Halloween is the closest.

    So - while the neighborhood is slamming down a bunch of gross mass produced candy on October 31st, I'll have a real goodie. Oh yeah, I'll have to post it too! (Eventually!) You know how it is. Work. Kids. Clean. Cook.



    I'll see if Bones Of The Dead is in my grandma's first recipe file she started when she married in 1932. Most of the recipes on my site came from her influence. If they aren't in her file - then I got them from her friends. And the remainder I experimented with adapting her style.

    I hope she looks down and smiles this Halloween.

    Lisa


    Would you like to share this page? You know how to do it! Thanks for sharing the sugar love!





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