Easy Cream Cheese Cookies
Soft, chewy, irresistible Cream Cheese Cookies and did I mention EASY? Author: CakesCottage. Recipe type: Dessert.
⏱️ Prep: 10 min🍳 Cook: 10 min
Ingredients
| 1/2 cup | 120 ml | unsalted butter (room temperature) |
| 3 oz. | 85 g | regular cream cheese (room temperature) |
| 1 1/2 cups | 360 ml | confectioner's sugar |
| 1/2 tsp | 2.5 ml | baking powder |
| 1 | egg (room temperature) | |
| 1/2 tsp | 2.5 ml | pure vanilla extract |
| 1 3/4 cups | 420 ml | all-purpose flour |
Instructions
Prep time: 10 mins. Cook time: 10 mins. Total time: 20 mins. Serves: 24-28.
- Heat oven to 375 degrees and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Cream butter and cream cheese in mixer bowl. Slowly add sugar and beat until fluffy. Beat in egg, add flour, baking powder and vanilla. Mix well.
- Chill dough for at least 1 hour. Shape into 1 inch balls, and dredge in superfine sugar or caster sugar.
- Place on lined cookie sheet, spacing them about 1½ inches apart. One thing I don't want you to skip, however, is slightly flattening the dough balls before baking.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the edges become slightly golden brown. They should look slightly under-baked (otherwise they won't be chewy).
- Cool for 1 minute on cookie sheet then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
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- If desired, sprinkle with powdered sugar once cooled, but do not overdo it because they are sweet enough.
- You'll get no less than 2 dozen cookies out of this dough. Cookies can be stored in an airtight container for 3-5 days.