These cream cheese sugar cookies are gentle, fluffy, and completely scrumptious! Make a batch, freeze half, and luxuriate in yummy sugar cookies all 12 months lengthy!
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My son doesn’t like chocolate so though I personally would like to eat all of the chocolate chip pudding cookies and brownie balls, he gained’t contact any of it.
However he does love sugar cookies (and snickerdoodles…) – any and all sugar cookies. I’ve already shared my favourite lower out sugar cookies, simple sugar cookies bites, and simply final week my favourite sugar cookie icing.
At the moment I’m sharing these scrumptious cream cheese sugar cookies as a result of nicely you may by no means have too many sugar cookie recipes proper?
Why You’ll Love These Cookies
- Cream cheese base – the cream cheese in these cookies makes them tremendous creamy and mushy (if creamy cookies is a factor).
- Nice for chopping out – this tremendous easy recipe is ideal for making lower out sugar cookies as nicely.
- Child-friendly – not solely do youngsters love these cookies, in addition they love serving to to make the dough AND to chop out the cookies earlier than they bake!
Components
Ingredient notes
- Cream cheese – ensure the cream cheese is softened earlier than you begin making your cookie dough. I like to recommend taking it out of the fridge for about an hour earlier than mixing or when you’re in a pinch, typically I’ll warmth it up within the oven for only a minute or two till softened.
- Butter – I all the time suggest utilizing high-quality butter when butter is such a key ingredient in a recipe like it’s in these cookies. Additionally, ensure the butter is softened as nicely. Take it out on the identical time you’re taking out the cream cheese.
make cream cheese sugar cookies
Like I discussed earlier than, these cream cheese sugar cookies are tremendous simple to make. Virtually as simple as these orange sugar cookies!
1 – make the cookie dough
Utilizing a hand or stand mixer, whip the butter and cream cheese till easy and creamy. That is why it’s vital to verify your butter is mushy – it gained’t combine as nicely if the butter is chilly.
Subsequent add sugar, salt, egg, and vanilla and blend nicely, then slowly add the flour and baking powder and blend till totally included.
2 – Chill the cookie dough
Divide the dough in half and wrap every half in plastic wrap and refrigerate for one hour.
Or when you’d slightly, you might simply place the every half in a plastic zipper bag and place it within the fridge, the plastic wrap simply tends to be rather less costly.
3 – Roll Out and Bake the Cookies
As soon as the dough is chilled, preheat your oven to 375°F and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
Sprinkle your working floor and dough with a bit flour (or powered sugar).
Working with one half at a time (depart the opposite half within the fridge), roll the dough out to 1/4 inch thick utilizing a rolling pin.
Use a cookie cutter to chop shapes into your dough. If wanted, re-roll out dough till all dough is used. Strive your finest to put the cookie cutters as near the perimeters as attainable.
If the dough begins getting mushy, place it again within the fridge to sit back for a couple of minutes.
Place lower dough on ready baking sheet, protecting the cookies at the very least an inch aside to permit them to unfold barely.
Bake cutout cookies at 375 for 8-9 minutes or till edges begin to get barely brown. Don’t over bake.
Let cookies cool for five minutes on the baking sheet earlier than transferring to a cooling rack.
As soon as the cookies are cooled, frost them with this sugar cookie icing or your favourite frosting. Beautify instantly after frosting if utilizing the icing talked about above because it dries rapidly.
Let icing set for a couple of minutes earlier than having fun with the cookies! When you’re planning to freeze these cookies, I like to recommend freezing earlier than frosted.
These cookies are excellent for just about any event! I’ve made them for all kinds of holidays together with Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and even simply common birthday events!
Suggestions & Methods
Work with half of the dough at a time in order that the dough stays chilled and doesn’t get too mushy.
Put the cookies within the fridge for 5-10 minutes earlier than baking if the dough will get mushy whereas chopping them out.
Use a gallon measurement plastic bag to refrigerate the dough when you don’t have plastic wrap out there. Plastic wrap is only a less expensive choice.
Get pleasure from cookies inside 5 days or freeze utilizing directions within the FAQs part under.
Recipe FAQs
Can you utilize cream cheese as a substitute of butter in cookies?
Cream cheese and butter are completely totally different so no, you can not substitute the butter in cookies with extra cream cheese.
Are you able to freeze cream cheese sugar cookies?
This dough freezes nice. You may both freeze the cookies after baked or use the directions above to freeze the dough earlier than baking. To freeze particular person cookies, merely place cookies in an hermetic container then place within the freezer. If you’re able to eat, take away from the freezer and permit to thaw till they attain room temperature and luxuriate in.
Do baked cream cheese cookies want refrigeration?
You don’t want to refrigerate these cookies for the reason that quantity of cream cheese within the cookies is pretty minimal.
Extra Simple Cookies
- Chocolate Rolo cookies – chocolate chip cookies with a Rolo stuffed within the center. Just about wonderful!
- Snickers cookies – if Rolo cookies weren’t sufficient, these cookies with mini Snickers inside are an incredible choice for peanut butter lovers!
- Cherry cheesecake cookies – sugar cookies topped with cherry cheesecake filling and drizzled with a candy glaze.
- Moon pie recipe – home made moon pies that style identical to, if not higher, than the shop purchased ones!
- Chocolate whoopie pies – two mushy cookies sandwiched round a fluffy vanilla filling.
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Serves cookies
Cookies
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Utilizing hand or stand mixer, cream collectively butter and cream cheese.
1 cup unsalted butter, 8 ounces cream cheese
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Add sugar, salt, egg, and vanilla to butter/cream cheese combination and blend nicely.
1 1/4 cup sugar, 1/4 tsp salt, 1 egg, 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
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Slowly add flour and baking powder and blend nicely.
3 1/2 cups all goal flour, 3/4 tsp baking powder
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Divide dough in half and wrap every half in plastic wrap then refrigerate for 1 hour.
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As soon as dough is chilled, preheat oven to 375°F and line baking sheets with parchment paper. Frivolously flour working floor and dough.
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Roll dough out to 1/4″ thickness then lower with a cookie cutters. Place lower dough on ready baking sheet.
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Bake for 8-9 minutes till the bottoms begin to brown barely. Let cool on baking sheet for five minutes, then switch to cooling rack to complete cooling.
Icing
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Whereas cookies are cooling, make the icing by combining powdered sugar, heavy whipping cream, gentle corn syrup, vanilla, and a couple of tablespoons water and blend nicely. If wanted, add 1 – 3 tablespoons extra water till icing is desired consistency.
3 cups powdered sugar, 3 TBS heavy whipping cream, 4 tsp gentle corn syrup, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract, 3-4 TBS water
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To paint icing, use a toothpick to switch meals coloring to icing and blend nicely till desired shade is achieved.
gel meals coloring
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Switch icing into zippered bag and lower off one nook, then drizzle over cookies and garnish with sprinkles as desired.
vacation sprinkles
Put the cookies within the fridge for 5-10 minutes earlier than baking if the dough will get mushy whereas chopping them out.
Use a gallon measurement plastic bag to refrigerate the dough when you don’t have plastic wrap out there. Plastic wrap is only a less expensive choice.
Get pleasure from cookies inside 5 days or freeze utilizing directions within the FAQs part under.
Vitamin Be aware: The vitamin information for this recipe are calculated for the cookies solely, the icing recipe is included for comfort however if you’d like vitamin information for that, try the sugar cookie icing recipe by itself.
Energy: 126kcal, Carbohydrates: 15g, Protein: 2g, Fats: 7g, Saturated Fats: 4g, Trans Fats: 1g, Ldl cholesterol: 23mg, Sodium: 35mg, Potassium: 30mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 6g, Vitamin A: 224IU, Calcium: 13mg, Iron: 1mg
