Lofthouse Cookies

This is my go-to cookie recipe. People go nuts over these every time. I don't smush them down too much, and they stay semi-fluffy, not exactly like the brand name, but still very good. Some people have said these are better than the brand name! I use another frosting recipe, not this one. It is a crusting cream cheese buttercream, which allows me to pipe out decorations and letters. I make them with little footballs and helmets for our tailgates. : )
Thank you for sharing!

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Tastewise these are pretty darned close to the real thing but it didn't hit the mark for me on texture. My cookies weren't fluffy at all actually and more resembled a traditional sugar cookie. I wonder if not smooshing the cookie down would help with this. Regardless, my husband used explicitives when telling me how good these cookies were so there ya go! Made soooooo much stinking frosting I think I threw away like a pound of it. I will definitely half next time.

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I made these for the first time using Pillsbury Vanilla cake mix. I didn't make the homemade frosting, though, just used a can of Pillsbury frosting I had in the pantry. I couldn't believe how good they were. I took them to work to share and my husband packed them in his lunchbox all week and they were gone pretty quick. This is definitely a keeper in my recipe file and I will be making them again.

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Yum! I loved these. Pretty close to lofthouse if you ask me, but I'm not as picky as some people can be. I really enjoyed the simplicity of the recipe, no creaming sugar and eggs etc. I used a store bought white icing and decorated them really cute. Everyone loved them and thought I was a cookie genius. Thanks alot!

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I just made these cookies and they are really good. The icing recipe makes alot of icing. These are the easiest cookies ever. I had to get Betty Crocker cake mix. Couldn't find Pillsbury. I suggest trying them and will be making them quite often.

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This did not work out for me. It has the potential to be a perfectly good cookie, I suppose, but it does not duplicate the Lofthouse cookies. I used Betty Crocker French Vanilla cake mix which was 18.25 oz. (I think they all are these days.) Pillsbury no longer makes it (Duncan Hines still does also). They were easy to mix and the texture was fine for making balls, if a bit sticky. I flattened them to about 1/2 in. thick. Either Celeste :) eats a ton of dough when she makes these or the size should be more than 1 1/2 inches to get 12 cookies. I actually got 24. I baked them for 8 minutes because there were no appearance cues to let me know what to look for (except that they were obviously not cooked yet after 6 minutes). They were not completely cooked and were chewy. The flavor was right, but the texture was completely wrong. Maybe I should have flattened them more (how thin is "too thin"?). I had separate issues with the icing which had nothing to do with the recipe, so I can't speak to it. I would not make this again because it was not what I was looking for (at least not with the results I got, although tweaking might do it).

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This recipe was VERY easy and it turned out better than expected. You do want to use Pillsbury Vanilla, it has a great taste to it. They are a little heavy, but yet fluffy..weird. I didn't do the icing, I went store bought and colored the icing. Everything was perfect!!! Thank you!!!!

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These tasted pretty good but I would not say that they are anything like lofthouse. They aren't as fluffy.

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the cookie part was excellent...the icing wasn't the same...but now I have one half of the cookie:)!

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