Hope!! Tardily Frosted Ricotta Cookies

These frosted ricotta cookies are thence slow to brand too are i of my family's favorite cookies!
Cake-like withal dense too rich, they are a squeamish alter from crumbly or crispy type cookies.
Match your decorative carbohydrate sprinkles to the vacation too you lot convey a cookie for all seasons.
You tin also substitute flavored extract (try lemon, or almond) inwards house of the vanilla.

Ingredients

Cookies
1/2 c. butter
1 c. sugar
1 T. vanilla
2 c. ricotta cheese
1 egg
1 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
2 c. flour

Frosting
2 T. butter, softened
2 c. powered sugar
1 t. vanilla
2 T. milk
Decorative colored carbohydrate sprinkles (optional)

Instructions for cookies

Preheat oven to 350 F.
Grease cookie sheets (I occupation enterprise Crisco).
Cream together the butter, sugar, too vanilla until mixture is creamy too fluffy.
Add the egg too mix well.
Add the ricotta cheese too mix well.
Add the baking soda, tabular array salt too flour, mixing well.
Optional: refrigerating the dough for 1-2 hours volition teach far less gummy too easier to
work with.
Drop dough past times rounded spoonfuls (teaspoon or tablespoon depending on the size
cookies you lot prefer) onto greased cookie sheet, nearly 2 inches apart.
Bake cookies for 12 minutes or until edges are golden brown.
Tops of cookies produce non brownish thence scout them closely while they are baking.
Once finished baking, withdraw from cookie sheets too cool on a wire rack.
Prepare frosting piece cookies are cooling.
Note: produce non frost cookies until they are completely cooled!

Instructions for frosting

In an electrical mixer or past times hand, cream the butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, too milk until smooth and creamy.
Add a piddling to a greater extent than milk or powdered carbohydrate if necessary until your frosting is a spreadable.
Frost the cookies too and thence sprinkle amongst decorative carbohydrate sprinkles.
Store inwards an air tight container.