Sugar cookies made with cream cheese might sound like an interesting choice at first—but just wait until you taste the perfectly moist, buttery result! They make a delicious dessert all by themselves, but we also love frosting and decorating these Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies. Break out the holiday cookie cutters, or celebrate a birthday with colored sugar in your loved one's favorite hues. Just be careful who you make them for...once word gets around about these melt-in-your-mouth Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies, you'll be fielding requests left and right!
More About This Recipe
- Is it possible for sugar cookies to get any better? Yep, it is, thanks to this incredibly moist, soft sugar cookie recipe. The not-so-secret ingredient? Cream cheese! It adds just the right amount of richness, and combined with a bit of almond extract, gives these cookies a delicious taste your whole crowd will love. (Don’t have almond extract? You can easily take this out and replace it with vanilla extract instead!) Adding cream cheese to the dough will make it a bit stickier than other sugar cookie dough varieties, so make sure that your work surface is properly floured and that the dough has some time to chill before you start rolling it out and cutting. These cookies taste great on their own, but are also the perfect blank canvas for you to practice your cookie decorating skills! Sprinkle with colored sugar, or frost ‘em using our easy, fluffy sugar cookie frosting recipe.
Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
- Prep Time 45 min
- Total 1 hr 45 min
- Ingredients 9
- Servings 72
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 pkg (3 oz) cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- Colored sugar or decorator icing, if desired
Instructions
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Step1In large bowl, combine all ingredients except flour and colored sugar; beat until light and fluffy.
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Step2Add flour; mix well. Shape dough into 3 disks. Wrap dough in plastic wrap; refrigerate 1 hour for easier handling.
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Step3Heat oven to 375°F. On floured surface, roll out 1 disk of dough at a time to 1/8-inch thickness. (Keep remaining dough refrigerated.) Cut with lightly floured 2 1/2-inch round or desired shape cookie cutters. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Decorate with colored sugar.
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Step4Bake at 375°F. for 6 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheets. If desired, frost and decorate plain cookies.
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Nutrition
50
Calories
3g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
6g
Total Carbohydrate
3g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Undecorated Cookie
- Calories
- 50
- Calories from Fat
- 25
- Total Fat
- 3g
- 5%
- Saturated Fat
- 2g
- 10%
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 3%
- Sodium
- 45mg
- 2%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 6g
- 2%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 3g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 2%
- 2%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 1/2 Fat;Tips from the
Pillsbury Kitchens
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