Last week, we decided to try out a recipe for cream cheese cookies we found on an awesome website we love called Pinterest! I was a little concerned that they would come out too rich (sometimes I find cream cheese flavoring to be too much) or super heavy. I was delighted to find that these cookies, made with just 7 ingredients, were extremely light in both richness and texture yet held the perfect, subtle amount of cream cheese flavoring. Here's how you make 'em (we did the drop/roll method)!
1/2 Cup Unsalted Butter (room temperature)
3 oz. Regular Cream Cheese (room temperature)
1 1/2 Cups Confectioner's Sugar
1/2 Tsp Baking Powder
1 Egg (room temperature)
1/2 Tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
1 3/4 Cups All - Purpose Flour
Heat your oven to 375 degrees and line your cookie sheets with parchment paper. Place butter and cream cheese in your mixer bowl and beat for 1 minute. Beat in the sugar and baking powder. Add the egg and vanilla and 'Beat Until Fluffy.' Beat in the flour. Chill for 30 minutes for drop/roll cookies, one hour for cut-out cookies. Scoop by rounded teaspoon full and dredge drop cookies (roll balled cookies) in superfine sugar. Bake for 7 minutes. Cool for 1 minute on cookie sheet then transfer to wire racks to cool completely. You'll get no less than 2 dozen dropped or rolled cookies out of this dough. The yield on cut-outs will depend on how big the shapes are (baking time remains the same). I make these cut-outs about 1/4 inch thick.
We also discovered that they pair perfectly with your morning coffee...
Next we might try and make mini strawberry shortcakes with them :) Yum!
