Grandma Kathryn's Meltaways Recipe

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Grandma Kathryn's Meltaways
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Ingredients
12
Count
Nutrition
1239
Calories
Total time
42
Minutes
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Ingredients:

  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 3 tbsp butter
  • 2 tbsp cream (i often use 2% milk as i don'tsp often have in the house)
  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • food coloring (optional)

Directions:

  1. Cream butter and powdered sugar until smooth. Butter should be at room temperature before you begin. Don't use the microwave because melted butter won't work the same.
  2. Sift flour or put through a fine mesh strainer.
  3. Add salt, vanilla, and flour and mix until flour is incorporated.
  4. Here is the most important step: Mix at high speed (highest for a hand mixer) for 5 minutes. Scrape bowl at least 3 times, do not count this time in your 5 minutes. Dough will be lighter and fluffier at the end of 5 minutes. Skipping this step will result in a very different cookie.
  5. Chill dough in refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
  6. Note: If you need to move faster, divide dough into small portions (3 or 4) and plop onto a large piece of plastic wrap. Loosely wrap and then pat into a disc. Dough should be chilled through in about an hour.
  7. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  8. Remove dough and begin rolling into small balls. I use a round 1/2 teaspoon measure and mound the dough and then finish rolling the ball.
  9. Place balls about an inch or inch and a half apart as they will not spread much while baking.
  10. Flatten with a bottom of a glass.
  11. How to: First put butter on the bottom of the glass, I use what is left on the paper in which the butter was wrapped. Put about 1/4 cup sugar into a cereal bowl and dip glass and then press lightly to flatten cookie. I find that with this dough you need to dip the glass in the sugar after every cookie. If cookies begin sticking you'll need to put a bit more butter on the bottom of the glass.
  12. Baking time will vary on the size of your cookie and the thickness. The original recipe says 12 minutes. Cookies should be firm. If they have just started to brown on the sides you've got it! You can also remove them just before they start to brown but this takes a bit of practice.
  13. Note: I find that my oven, which is always slow, takes about 16 minutes.
  14. Allow cookies to cool for at least 2 minutes before removing from pan to cooling rack.
  15. Frosting:.
  16. Mix butter, cream, extract and powdered sugar until smooth. You may need to add more powdered sugar. Consistency should be thick enough that it will not melt over the sides of the cookie but not stiff.
  17. Add food coloring to frosting and mix to desired color.
  18. Note: The only time these cookies did not disappear from a party was the time I colored them yellow. When I asked a friend why she hadn't eaten one, she said she thought they were lemon and didn't want to try them. Now I stick to colors like blue, purple, pink, etc.
  19. Note: Cookies will need to dry in a single layer. After they dry, separate with wax paper or, if possible, store in a single layer. Don't worry, they disappear very fast so this will not be a horrible inconvenice.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 1239.4 Kcal (5189 kJ)
Calories from fat 641.79 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 71.31g 110%
Cholesterol 73.84mg 25%
Sodium 1853.4mg 77%
Potassium 1933.46mg 41%
Total Carbs 140.39g 47%
Sugars 65.54g 262%
Dietary Fiber 4.14g 17%
Protein 12.98g 26%
Vitamin A 0.3mg 11%
Iron 2.4mg 13%
Calcium 178.9mg 18%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 488.75 Kcal (2046 kJ)
Calories from fat 253.09 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 28.12g 110%
Cholesterol 29.12mg 25%
Sodium 730.88mg 77%
Potassium 762.45mg 41%
Total Carbs 55.36g 47%
Sugars 25.85g 262%
Dietary Fiber 1.63g 17%
Protein 5.12g 26%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 11%
Iron 0.9mg 13%
Calcium 70.6mg 18%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 29.9
    Points
  • 34
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar,
  • High in Total Fat

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