Description
These cookies are super soft and full of real vanilla flavor. I ate way more than my quota this weekend!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks) softened
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 15 ounces Ricotta cheese
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Caviar of one vanilla bean pod
- 4 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
Glaze
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Caviar of one vanilla bean pod
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream together butter, sugar and eggs on medium speed.
- Add Ricotta cheese and mix until smooth. Add vanilla extract and vanilla caviar and blend.
- In a medium bowl, mix flour with baking powder and salt.
- Gradually add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients on low speed until a dough is formed.
- Drop the dough by level tablespoons onto a baking sheet. Bake for 12 minutes. Cookies will just be started to get golden around the bottom edges.
- Remove from baking sheet and place on a cooling rack with parchment paper underneath.
- Spoon glaze onto cookies and allow it to fully set before storing.
Glaze
- Whisk together powdered sugar, milk, vanilla extract and vanilla caviar in a small bowl until smooth.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories: 107
- Sugar: 9.4g
- Sodium: 86mg
- Fat: 3.9g
- Saturated Fat: 2.4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 1.2g
- Trans Fat: 0.1g
- Carbohydrates: 16g
- Fiber: 0.2g
- Protein: 1.9g
- Cholesterol: 17mg