My Grandmother’s Melt in Your Mouth Cookies
Today I’m sharing a family favorite cookie that brings back so many wonderful memories. My grandmother was a wonderful cook and baker. When she came to visit, she would arrive with tin after tin of assorted cookies. The cookie that we most looked forward to eating wasn’t in a tin, it was in a Russell Stover paper candy box. We would eagerly take off the lid of the box and inside would be cookies that literally melted in your mouth. Granny iced these cookies with a thin glaze of icing, sometimes flavored with a hint of lemon.
I truly don’t think that anyone could make these cookies taste as good as my grandmother could, but my mom and I both try. The secret is to roll the dough very thin. I can’t successfully get my cookies as thin as my grandmother’s but I’m getting close.
The ingredients for these cookies are few: butter, flour, powdered sugar, and egg, and vanilla. The dough can be chilled or you can roll it out immediately. I usually break off a quarter of the dough at a time to roll and keep the rest in the refrigerator until I’m ready for it. My grandmother’s hint to me for rolling out the dough is to mix powdered sugar with flour for the rolling surface. Be sure to coat your rolling pin as well as this dough can get sticky very quickly.
Place cut out cookies on either a parchment or Silpat lined baking sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for 2 minutes, turn pan and bake for another 1 1/2 to 2 minutes. Watch these cookies closely as they can quickly get too brown.
Cool cookies on a wire rack.
My grandmother always iced her cookies with a thin coat of icing. Simply whisk powdered sugar with a bit of water until the icing is of a glazing consistency. I tinted my icing with a touch of pink since I made hearts for Valentine’s Day.
Thinly coat cookies with icing. Make sure the icing is dry before storing the cookies in a container. I recommend putting a layer of parchment or waxed paper between each layer of cookies.
My Grandmother's Melt in Your Mouth Cookies
This sugar cookie recipe is the best. The dough is rolled thin and after baked, iced with a glaze. The cookies truly melt in your mouth and they are a family favorite.
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup soft butter
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla
Instructions
These cookies are so good! Growing up, they were a tradition for Christmas and later on for Valentine’s Day. My brother and I gobbled them up about as quickly as she could make them!
Wouldn’t your sweetie love a few of these for Valentine’s Day?
These sound yummy! I love passed down recipes. ~Sonya
These look totally yummy, Paula! I’ll have to give them a try. My hubby would love them. You’re so smart to have kept one of your grandmother’s recipes. I’ve kicked myself two million times for not learning to make my grandmother’s biscuits! Nobody could make them like her.
My grandmother made good biscuits, too! She didn’t use a recipe and even though I watched her make them over and over, I can’t make them taste like hers!
MMmm!!! These look amazing, delish and pretty too!! I love recipes that are tried and true and passed down through the family! Those are the best kind of recipes! It’s been fun to party with you Paula!
MMMM! Those look SOOO good!!!
♥Linsey
Thanks, Linsey! We love this recipe.
Paula…these cookies look so pretty & I bet they do just melt in your mouth. Grandma’s make the best cookies for sure, but I am sure yours are just as delicious. Thank you for sharing your family recipe. Such fun to kick off the tour together. I didn’t know you were a runner ( must do after a batch of these! ) ~ me too. Liked getting to know you better & will make these!
Are you going to Haven? If you are, maybe we can run together!
These sound light and delicate … and so pretty, too!
These look so yummy! Ashlyn has been wanting to make some cookies for Valentine’s Day, and I think this is the one!! XXOO Christy
You must have so much fun with Ashlyn. I hope she has fun doing her Valentine’s Day baking.
My mouth is watering,these are not only pretty but look delicious too!
Thanks, Anne! We love this recipe!
These look so delicious and pretty! Would go beautifully with my tea this afternoon! Gorgeous Valentine tour post!
Kathy
These look so delicious! My Grandmother was a cookie baker too and they were always in tins! I love cut-out cookies and can’t wait to try your special recipe. Thanks for sharing this special one with us!
These look and sound amazing. I can see them almost melting in your mouth.
– Alma, The Tablescaper
This really is a great recipe, Alma.
YUM! I just pinned it! 🙂
~Angela
Thanks so much for pinning this, Angela.
These cookies look so pretty and sound delicious. What a sweet memory you have of your grandmother. Also, she is a genius! Mixing the powdered sugar with the flour. So smart!
I am so glad my grandmother gave me that tip. I have to reroll this dough over and over to use it and adding the powdered sugar preserves their great taste.
Oh, my, the presentation is just lovely! Love the pics!
Thanks, Alison! That batch is long gone!
Oh, yummy! I’m not much of a baker, but I do love to make cookies! No wonder you looked so forward to these beautiful cookies! Thanks for sharing your treasured family recipe!
Paula! These cookies look so yummy! And l love the light pink color frosting! I’m going to bookmark this recipe! 🙂
Thanks, Laura. We love this recipe!
YUM! These look so pretty and now I want one..okay maybe three 😉
Hugs,
Jamie @ somuchbetterwithage.com
YUM! These sound so good and are an easy recipe! I’m definitely going to have to make these. Perhaps this weekend!
These look delicious Paula! Family recipes are always the best!
These might even get me, the non-cook, the get out the flour et al. (Hey, I even think I know where the rolling pin is!)
How wonderful to have your grandmother’s recipe, Paula! And thanks so much for sharing it with us! Hugs…Debbie
These cookies look dreamy!
OH my goodness!! They look amazing (I want one right now! 😉 )
Thanks so much for sharing your grandmother’s recipe with us!
Nancy
My roommate used to make a cookie very similar to this and they really did melt in your mouth! These look awesome, Paula! Pinning this to my dessert board right now! Thanks for sharing your mother’s recipe!
These cookies look amazing. I love a good non-chocolate dessert from time to time and these would be perfect. Thanks so much for sharing the recipe.
Your cookies look divine! Happy to be on the Valentine Home Tour with you.
I made your cookies for my sweetheart yesterday. They are so good and very easy. He loved them. I will be making them again.
These look delicious, Paula! I love family recipes that have been passed down. Thank you so much for sharing at Tuesday Turn About! xo
Thank you so much, Lynne. I can’t imagine how many of these cookies I have consumed over the years.
Paula, these look amazing! Thanks for sharing at Vintage Charm–pinned!
Thank you so much, Cecilia.
These look amazing and their story—priceless. Can’t wait to try them when my kitchen is back in working order!
Thank you so much, Leslie.