Nutty Irish Cream Cookies

Cookies are fun because you can do pretty much anything you want, and as long as the flavors go together, they will be delicious. Tie it together with frosting (really, who doesn't love a good frosting?) and you have an elegant but simple dessert. These cookies start with a regular sugar cookie base (think butter, sugar and a little vanilla) then get jazzed up with some cocoa powder, walnuts and some Irish Cream flavoring. I used coffee creamer but you could use a syrup or the real stuff if that was more appealing to you. The cookies are done in 12 minutes, so whip up the frosting while they cool. The recipe called for a powdered sugar based frosting (complemented by additional Irish Cream flavoring), but these cookies would be fantastic with a cream cheese frosting also. They are extremely sweet, but were gone in less than 6 hours with suggestions that we sell them for a profit.