Cookies
Key Ingredients
Ingredients
- ●2 cups all-purpose flour
- ●1 teaspoon baking powder
- ●1/4 teaspoon salt
- ●1 cup granulated sugar
- ●1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened
- ●2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ●1 large egg
- ●2 cups (12-ounce package) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels, divided
- ●1 container or more prepared vanilla frosting
- ●2 or more food coloring choices
Make It
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350° F.
Step 2
Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl. Beat sugar, butter and vanilla extract in a large mixer bowl until creamy. Beat in egg. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in 1 cup morsels. Press enough dough into greased and floured tablespoon to make slightly rounded. Invert onto ungreased baking sheets. Continue with remaining dough.
Step 3
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or just until golden around edges. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool completely.
Step 4
To Color Frosting: Stir food coloring into small amounts of frosting until desired color. For deep colored frosting, use paste colors available in cake decorating shops.
Step 5
To Pipe Frosting: Use pastry bag fitted with small, plain or fluted tip, heavy-duty plastic bag with tiny corner snipped off or plastic squeeze bottle with small tip.
Step 6
To Decorate Cookies Frost tops with white or colored frosting. Decorate as desired with remaining morsels, piped frosting and colored sugars.
