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Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Smurfetta / All my dishes 1 year, 11 months ago These make great Christmas, Valentine, Easter and all occasion cookies. The kids will love decorating them. Cream cheese in a classic cookie will make the dough very tender. Prep:60m Cook:8m Servings:36	Smurfetta
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Ingredients

1 C Sugar

1 C Butter, softened

3 (3 oz pkg) Cream Cheese

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp Almond extract

1/2 tsp Vanilla

1 Egg, yolk only

2 C All pourpose flour

colored sugar or decorating icing

Directions

Combine all ingredients, except flour & colored sugar in a large bowl

Add flour a tablespoon at a time, mix well.

Seperate dough into 3 batches.

Wrap in plastic wrap & refrigerate 3 hours.

Heat oven to 375F.

On floured surface roll out 1 batch of dough to 1/8" thickness.

Cut with cookie cutters.

Place 1" apart on ungreased cookie sheet. (decorate with colored sugar if desired)

Bake @ 375F 6 - 10 minutes until light golden brown.

Remove from cookie sheet right away.

Decorate with icings if desired.

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jcooks 1 year, 11 months ago said:
I make a cookie similar to these. They don't get tough the way regular rolled cookies do because of the cream cheese. I use the lower fat kind.

smurfetta 1 year, 11 months ago said:
These cookies will not get tough if you do not rol then twice. Low fat cream cheese tends to leave too much moisture in the dough.

ozsmom 2 months, 1 week ago said:
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