What could be better than sugar cookies with dulce de leche icing? Iced cookies with extra dulce de leche drizzle, of course! These incredible dulce de leche cookies taste like they took all day to make, but are actually super easy, getting a jump-start from Pillsbury™ refrigerated sugar cookie dough. After that, it only takes four more ingredients and minimal prep to make cookies that taste like they came straight from the bakery. Make them for your next holiday party, or any special day when the sweet tooth craving strikes.
Dulce de Leche-Iced Cookies
- Prep Time 35 min
- Total 1 hr 45 min
- Ingredients 5
- Servings 36
Ingredients
- 1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Sugar Cookie Dough
- 7 oz (from 8-oz package) cream cheese, softened
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons dulce de leche (caramelized sweetened condensed milk) (from 13.4-oz can)
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Line cookie sheets with cooking parchment paper.
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Step2In large bowl, break up cookie dough; stir or knead in 3 oz of the cream cheese and the flour until well mixed. (DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH AFTER COMBINING WITH FLOUR.) Shape into 36 (1 1/4-inch) balls. Place 2 inches apart on cookie sheets.
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Step3Bake 9 to 12 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
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Step4In medium bowl, stir remaining 4 oz cream cheese, 2 tablespoons of the dulce de leche and the powdered sugar until smooth and creamy. Frost cookies.
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Step5In small microwavable bowl, microwave remaining 1/3 cup dulce de leche uncovered on High 30 to 40 seconds or until thin enough to drizzle (reheat 10 seconds if necessary). Drizzle over iced cookies. Store covered in refrigerator.
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Nutrition
110
Calories
4 1/2g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
16g
Total Carbohydrate
11g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 110
- Calories from Fat
- 40
- Total Fat
- 4 1/2g
- 7%
- Saturated Fat
- 2g
- 11%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 3%
- Sodium
- 65mg
- 3%
- Potassium
- 20mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 16g
- 5%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 11g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 0%
- 0%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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