Quebec White Cookie

When we were small kids, my sister and me attended a birthday party where our friend’s mom made these cookies.  For years, we talked about them and how great they were and a few years ago, our childhood friend got her mom to share her recipe with us.

These types of cookies are popular in Quebec, where I grew up, to eat along tea or coffee.  They are not overly sweet and keep well in a cookie jar in a dry place.

Cookie batter ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup melted vegetable shortening (microwave 1 minute)
• Pinch salt
• 3 cups flour
• 3 tsp. baking powder
• ¾ cup milk
• ½ tsp. vanilla

Quebec White Cookie Batter

Cookie instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large bowl, beat eggs, sugar and Crisco with an electric mixer to incorporate.
3. In another bowl, combine flour, salt and baking powder.
4. Incorporate flour mixture to egg mixture.  Combine well.
5. Add milk and vanilla to batter.
6. Drop batter by tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet about ¼ inch in interval.
7. Bake 15 minutes.

Glaze ingredients:

• ½ cup butter
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• ½ whole milk
• 1/3 cup corn starch
• 1 cup powdered sugar

Glaze instructions:

1. Bring all glaze ingredients to a boil in a medium saucepan until thickened, approximately 3 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes.
2. Thicken glaze further with powdered sugar if needed to reach a thick spreadable icing.
3. Glaze cookies while they are still hot.

Makes about 20 cookies.

Notes: For the glaze, you may dissolve corn starch into the milk until smooth before adding to the saucepan to help prevent lumps in glaze.