Groovy Cookies!

A few years ago, I inherited a collection of recipes from my wife's great (and late) aunt. She had amassed an absurd impressive amount of McCall's recipe books, all of which were published in the 1970's. Many of these have since been thrown out, because we try our very very best not to be hoarders around here. I kept my favorites though; here's one of them: 

These are not my hands. These are my wife's un-scarred un-chef-like fingers.
 Gaze upon their untouched flesh. Clearly she should be chopping more things. 

FROSTED "BUTTON" COOKIES

McCall's, 1973

NOTES FROM THE ANGRY CHEF: 

- I'm not sure why they put the quotation marks around "BUTTON." In fact I don't know what buttons have to do with this at all.

- I didn't create this. The 70's did. 

- Do you dig it?

Cookie Ingredients:

3.5 cups sifted all purpose flour (sift before measuring)

1 tsp baking soda

.5 tsp salt 

1 cup butter, softened

2 cups light brown sugar, firmly packed

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 cup finely chopped walnuts or pecans

Frosting Ingredients:

4 cups confectioner's sugar

.5 cup butter, softened

1 tsp vanilla extract

4 to 5 tbsp milk

2 oz unsweetened chocolate, melted

Assorted colored frosting decorators, with writing tip

(note: this is how you write "groovy" on the cookies, which is an essential step)

Make the cookies!

- Preheat oven to 375 F

- Sift flour with baking soda and salt

- In a large bowl, with an electric mixer at medium speed, beat 1 cup butter until light. Gradually beat in brown sugar. Add eggs and 1 tsp vanilla. Continue beating until light and fluffy. 

- At low speed, gradually beat in flour mixture until smooth. Add nuts. Mix well.

- Drop dough by tablespoonfuls, 3.5 inches apart, onto un-greased cookie sheets. Pat each into round about 3/4 inch thick.

- Bake 10 - 12 minutes, or until lightly browned. Remove cookies to wire rack. Cool. Cool, dog.

Make the frosting!

- In a medium bowl, combine confectioner's sugar, butter, vanilla, and milk. With electric mixer, beat until smooth and creamy. Remove 1 cup of frosting to small bowl. Add chocolate, and beat until well blended. 

This is what the people from the 1970's want you to do now:

- Spread half of the cookies with white frosting and the other half with chocolate frosting, then write popular sayings on cookies, as pictured. 

- Makes 32 cookies.

 Good job, guys. We did it.