Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
Cream cheese gives sugar cookies a marvelous flavor. It also makes the dough softer and stickier. The dough needs to be cold when these are rolled out; if it begins to stick, return it to the refrigerator for a while.
This dough is used in Shining Star Cookies.
This dough is used in Shining Star Cookies.
Ingredients
At a glance
Rolled and cutout cookies
Holiday cookies
Makes
5 to 6 dozen 2 1/2-inch cookies
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon orange extract (or vanilla)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
Steps
On medium-high speed, cream butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar and cream until light.
Beat in egg yolk, vanilla and orange extracts, and salt until well blended.
Add flour and beat at low speed until flour is thoroughly incorporated. Dough will be soft and sticky.
Divide dough into 2 parts and scrape onto plastic wrap. Wrap tightly and refrigerate for 6 to 8 hours or overnight, until firm.
Roll out on a floured board or pastry cloth to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut into shapes as desired. If dough begins to stick, return to refrigerator until it firms up again.
Bake on lightly greased cookie sheets in a preheated 350-degree oven for 9 to 12 minutes, depending on size. Or, cut and bake as directed in recipe.
Beat in egg yolk, vanilla and orange extracts, and salt until well blended.
Add flour and beat at low speed until flour is thoroughly incorporated. Dough will be soft and sticky.
Divide dough into 2 parts and scrape onto plastic wrap. Wrap tightly and refrigerate for 6 to 8 hours or overnight, until firm.
Roll out on a floured board or pastry cloth to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut into shapes as desired. If dough begins to stick, return to refrigerator until it firms up again.
Bake on lightly greased cookie sheets in a preheated 350-degree oven for 9 to 12 minutes, depending on size. Or, cut and bake as directed in recipe.
Additional tips
Store: In a tightly covered container.
Freeze: Yes
Mail: Yes
Freeze: Yes
Mail: Yes
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