# Kentucky Butter Cake Cookies

A recipe for Kentucky butter cake cookies, featuring a soft cookie base glazed with a creamy butter sauce and topped with powdered sugar.

- Servings: 6 servings
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Dessert
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- butter
- granulated sugar
- powdered sugar
- 1 room temp egg
- vanilla
- flour
- baking powder
- salt
- water

## Instructions

1. Cream the butter, granulated sugar, and powdered sugar together.
2. Add in one room temp egg and some vanilla, then mix until creamy.
3. Add in the flour, baking powder, and salt and mix again.
4. Using a large cookie scooper, scoop out six equally sized cookie dough balls.
5. Roll the dough balls between the palms of your hands and gently flatten them to about 2 cm in thickness.
6. Bake the cookies in a preheated oven.
7. While the cookies are baking, make the butter sauce by melting butter, powdered sugar, a little water, and a little vanilla over medium-low heat.
8. Stir the butter sauce continuously until it's creamy.
9. Glaze the hot cookies with the butter sauce.
10. Top the glazed cookies with some powdered sugar.

## Equipment

- large cookie scooper

## Source

- Original video: https://pin.it/3RuPETG2Y
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/165dffb8-7eac-4b50-bc3f-a77ac34b7661
- Extracted: 2026-03-23

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