Looking for a dessert made using refrigerated sugar cookie dough? Then check out these cashew-filled cookies topped with brown butter icing. Ready in 40 minutes.
Quick Cashew Cookies with Brown Butter Icing
- Prep Time 40 min
- Total 40 min
- Servings 30
- Ingredients 7
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated sugar cookie dough
- 3/4 cup coarsely chopped cashews
- 1/2 cup white chocolate chunks or white vanilla baking chips
Icing
- 1/3 cup butter (do not use margarine)
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons milk
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, break up cookie dough. Stir in cashews and white chocolate chunks. Drop dough by heaping teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
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Step2Bake 9 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheets; place on wire racks.
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Step3While cookies are baking, in 1-quart saucepan, cook butter over medium heat, stirring constantly, until light golden brown. Remove from heat. Stir in remaining icing ingredients until smooth.
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Step4On top of warm cookies, immediately spoon about 1 teaspoon icing (if icing becomes too thick, reheat over low heat).
Nutrition
160
Calories
8g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
20g
Total Carbohydrate
14g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 160
- Calories from Fat
- 70
- Total Fat
- 8g
- 13%
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- 15%
- Trans Fat
- 1g
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 4%
- Sodium
- 65mg
- 3%
- Potassium
- 45mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 20g
- 7%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 14g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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