Root Beer Cookies

In Mike Judge's 2009 film Extract Jason Bateman reminisces about his family making root beer cookies. I had never heard of such a thing before this movie but my boyfriend, who I saw the movie with, is a root beer fiend and began nudging me during the movie as soon as the cookies were mentioned. So I went to the trustworthy internet and found a recipe. Tweaked it and they came out delicious.
Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter


• 1 cup dark brown sugar


• 1 egg


• 2 teaspoons root beer extract (or a little more if you really want that rootbeer taste!)
  


• 1 3/4 cups flour


• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda


• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Got your ingredients? Fantastic!

1. Cream the butter and dark brown sugar until it is light and fluffy.


2. Add the egg and beat well, once it is combined add the root beer extract.


3. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Then slowly add it to the butter mixture (and pray that your ancient mixer doesn't give out on you)


4. You'll be left with something resembling this:

Take a Taste! :D I love stealing just a bit of cookie dough and it's at this point that the dough really taste like Root beer. Once the dough is ready you'll want to cover it up and stick in the fridge for about an hour or so. Once that's done preheat the oven to 350 degrees and bake for about 6-8 minutes. Once they're done let them cool for about 20 minutes before putting on the Root Beer frosting.

Don't have root beer frosting? Make some!
Root Beer Frosting

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup of butter


• 1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar


• 1 tsp root beer extract


• Few tablespoons of water (optional, I didn't really need it)

1. Beat the butter on high until it's nice and fluffy.


2. Add a little of the powdered sugar and the extract.


3. Continue adding the powdered sugar and beat until smooth.

The water is only needed if you want a different consistency for your frosting. Make sure you keep the frosted cookies in the fridge as the frosting has a tendency to sweat.