This recipe has been a favorite of mine for years and creates a tasty cut-out cookie with the added flavors of cream cheese and almond.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time10 minutesmins
Chilling the dough2 hourshrs
Course: cookie
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Cut Out Cookie
Yield: 5dozen
Author: Beverly
Ingredients:
3½cupsWhite Flour
1 tspBaking Powder
1cupButter (2 sticks)
18 oz pkgCream Cheese
2cupsWhite Sugar
1Egg
1tspVanilla Extract
¼tspAlmond Extract
Cookie Glaze
Powdered (Confectioner) Sugar
Milk
Instructions:
Making The Cookie Dough
In a medium bowl, mix together the flour and the baking powder and set aside
In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter and the cream cheese.
Add in the sugar, egg, vanilla, and almond extract and beat until everything is well mixed together.
Gradually add in the flour mixture. Towards the end of adding in the flour mixture I usually stop using my electric mixer and finish up mixing it by hand as the dough starts to get thicker.
The dough can then be divided into thirds and chilled for several hours or overnight. I usually wrap the portions of dough in wax paper while they're chilling in the refrigerator.
Cutting and Baking the Cookies
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
Roll out the dough to about a 1/4" thickness on a floured surface using a rolling pin.
Cut the rolled out dough into shapes using cookie cutters. Place the cut-out shapes onto ungreased cookie sheets. They don't spread out at all in the oven so you can put them pretty close together on the cookie sheet.
Bake for 10 minutes.
Remove from the oven and let them sit on the cookie sheet for a minute or so to cool a bit. Then transfer them to a cookie rack or lay them on on some paper toweling to cool the rest of the way.
Cookie "frosting" glaze
Put a couple of good sized spoonfuls of the powdered sugar in a bowl.
Add the milk, one spoonful at a time as needed, stirring it in until you have a nice consistency that's not too runny. If your mixture does end up being too thin, just add in some more powdered sugar. A drop or two of food coloring can also be added.
Use a spoon to put a little of the glaze on each cookie and spread it around with the back of the spoon. I've found this works better than using a knife.
Add your sprinkles or decorations while the glaze is still wet and lay on wax paper to harden.