… My mother would make these cookies for every holiday.  We (my brother and sister) would constantly ask for them, and usually we’d have to wait a whole summer before a holiday came around to where she would make them again.  It was a process, watching her roll out the dough and cut shapes, and wait for them to bake and cool before we could get our hands on the them to frost them.

For Halloween, besides getting to dress up in crazy costumes and going trick-or-treating, we had two things to look forward to.  Beef and Vegetable soup before we set out for the night, and Frosted Rolled Butter Cookies cut into pumpkin shapes.

I don’t have any children of my own yet, so I have passed down this tradition of frosted cookies at the holiday’s to my friends’ kids-I am their Fairy Godmother.  At their request, I will embark on making a batch of these soft, melt in your mouth butter cookies and frosting them in various fall colors.  So that on Friday, when the kids (13 total) and I and a few other adults get crazy and carve pumpkins, they too can enjoy them like I did as a child.