Velvet Cookies for Father’s Day #SundaySupper

This week our Sunday Supper Group is celebrating Fathers in every form from Dad, Granddad, Step Dad, just-like-my-dad and Moms that also sub as dad. We’re making them their favorite recipes to eat or cook and recipes we want them to try.

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dad and me


Thanks to our founder and friend, Isabel from Family Foodie for hosting this event!

I never really got to know my Dad. He passed away a month after my seventh birthday. I do remember little things like he liked cold leftover spaghetti for breakfast and he smoked cigars. He had his own construction business and his friends said that he could dig and lay a foundation without ever taking a measurement. Not true of course, as far as I know anyway. 😉
I know he could look at a photo or drawing and reproduce it perfectly. If you measured his drawing to scale of the original it was as exact as possible. I’m proud to say that I inherited that trait.
Cold spaghetti didn’t sound like a great tribute so I poked around my Mom’s old cookbooks where she had lots of notations scribbled down. I paged through my Mom’s recipe notebook and found a recipe that I vaguely remember yet for some reason it seemed familiar. Velvet Cookies.
There are coffee stains on the page and its well worn so I know it was made often and a favorite of my Mom, Dad or both. Like I said earlier, this post is about dads and moms that did both roles too. Like my Mom.
These cookies melt in your mouth with a hint of peanut butter. I added jelly on top and a powdered sugar dusting. That’s my own touch. Dad would have liked that.

Velvet Cookies
They’re great with or without the jelly.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 2 Tablespoons peanut butter, smooth or chunky
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Instructions

In a medium-sized bowl, cream together butter, peanut butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla.
In a separate bowl, mix flour and baking powder. You can add 1/4 teaspoon of salt if you wish but it doesn’t need it.
Stir flour mix into wet ingredients. Chill dough.
Loosely roll dough into 1-inch balls and place on an un-greased cookie sheet.
velvet cookie balls

Bake at 350 for 8 to 10 minutes until golden brown on the bottom.

velvet cookie

Cool completely and spread with jelly and/or dust with powdered sugar if desired.
velvet cookie plate

Velvet Cookies for Father's Day #SundaySupper
 
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Ingredients
  • Ingredients
  • ■1 cup butter, softened
  • ■2 Tablespoons peanut butter, smooth or chunky
  • ■1 cup powdered sugar
  • ■1 egg
  • ■1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ■2 cups flour
  • ■1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Instructions
  1. In a medium-sized bowl, cream together butter, peanut butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla.
  2. In a separate bowl, mix flour and baking powder. You can add ¼ teaspoon of salt if you wish but it doesn't need it.
  3. Stir flour mix into wet ingredients. Chill dough.
  4. Loosely roll dough into 1-inch balls and place on an un-greased cookie sheet.
  5. Bake at 350 for 8 to 10 minutes until golden brown on the bottom.
  6. Cool completely and spread with jelly and/or dust with powdered sugar if desired.

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