Nanny’s Sugar Cookies with Orange Moscato Frosting
Nanny’s Sugar Cookies are an old fashioned recipe with a little bit of a modern upgrade! These sugar cookies are frosted with a creamy and sweet orange moscato frosting, then sprinkled with sparkling colored sugars.
Course Cookie Recipes, Desserts
Cuisine American
Keyword Sugar Cookies Recipe, Sugar Cookies with Orange Moscato Frosting
In a large mixing bowl, add butter, sugar, eggs and orange rind and mix until creamy. Set aside.
Sift together flour, salt, baking powder and nutmeg. Add to wet mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour.
Chill dough for at least 2 hours.
Remove from refrigerator and roll dough out onto floured cutting board, using a sprinkling of flour where needed to keep dough from sticking to board and rolling pin.
Cut cookies with round cookie cutter.
Bake until slightly brown around the edges, about 10 minutes.
While cookies are baking, assemble the frosting. Stir together melted butter, confectioner's sugar, orange extract and moscato wine until combined. Add half and half 1 tablespoon at a time until of spreading consistency. You may or may not need all of the half and half depending on the creaminess you want to obtain.
Notes
This is a recipe that Gram had in her kitchen all the time. Sometimes she would frost them but would always leave a few unfrosted. Everyone knew where to find her cookies. My Aunt Marlene told me that this particular recipe came from Great Grandma Lottie Clark's cookbook. (Nanny's mom)