Butter Jewel Cookies (Thanks Mom)

To my Mom and Grandma, thank you for teaching me how to cook.  I have always treasured or times together baking these cookies around Christmas.  Listening to Andy Williams, Bing Crosby or Johnny Mathis The best memories I have as a kid.  This recipe is one, yes just one of my many favorites.  I hope you enjoy this one and share it with your family.

Here you all go.

Ingredients

4 Cups All Purpose Flour
2 Cups Sugar
3 Sticks Butter
1 TSP Vanilla
1/2 TSP Salt
2 Egg Yolks

Making The Cookies

• First turn your oven to 350 degrees
• Add your room temperature butter to mixing bowl

• Add your sugar and mix these well, to its fluffy

• Add your egg yolks one at a time and then your vanilla

• In another bowl mix your flour and salt together and mix well
• Add this to your sugar mixture

• Once it's all mix together, it will form into a big ball
• Grab your cookie trays and start rolling your dough into balls
• Place your thumb in the middle and press down

• Now do about two pan of these at a time
• Bake in the oven for about 10-12 minutes or until a little brown
• Before they go in

• And this is what they look like after they come out
• Now allow these to cool before you place the frosting on them
• Here is the recipe for the frosting 

Frosting

2 Cups of Powdered Sugar
1 Tsp Vanilla
1 TBL Milk
1 Stick of Butter

All you do is put all of these ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix until smooth.  Add whatever food coloring you would like and start decorating your cookies

• Now that the cookies have cooled it is time to decorate them

• I used red and green food coloring

Enjoy everyone and have a happy holiday.