Cream Cheese Cutout Cookies
"Another one of my favorite cutout recipes. I find this dough to be very easy to work with....especially when cutting out small or intricate shapes. I like to make these cookies thicker than my other cutouts. They're great for decorating and icing, too!
Prep time does NOT include time for dough to chill. Makes about 4-5 dozen; depending on size and thickness of your shapes."
photo by *Parsley*
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
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4-5 dozen
ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 teaspoon almond extract
- 3 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
directions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat together butter, cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Add egg, vanilla and almond extracts; beat well.
- In a small bowl, combine flour and baking powder- gradually mix into cream cheese mixture; beat until well-mixed.
- Divide dough in half; wrap each half in plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 1/2 hours.
- When dough is done chilling, preheat oven to 375.
- Roll dough on to lightly floured surface to about 1/8"-1/4" thickness. Cut with cookie cutters. (If desired, sprinkle with colored sugars.) Place on ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes or until edges just slightly golden. Allow to cool 2 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool. If desired, decorate with icing or glaze.
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Reviews
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while they look beautiful and small quite good too, i think the taste lacked. I don't think I did anything wrong but they are quite blah. thankfully I topped them with sugar otherwise they would have been really boring. -
This is now my "go to" recipe for cutout cookies. They taste good even without icing. I found the dough was a little thin to handle so I ended up adding about 1/2 cup extra flour to firm it up. Plus, I rolled out on a silpat and lifted the cut cookies easily by inverting the silpat one cookie at a time. Thanks for a great recipe! -
I used peppermint extract instead of the almon and added in crushed up candy canes to use up the leftover candies from Christmas. I also only used half of the amount of butter to cut the calories and used 1 1/4 cup splenda instead. Overall, great and easy recipe!
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This is the best cutout cookie recipe that I have found. The cookies are easy to make and rolling them out is a breeze! When baked they do not puff up and hold their shape very well - not to mention that they taste great either with icing or without!
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yummy and easy.....my new Christmas cut recipe
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Tweaks
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I used peppermint extract instead of the almon and added in crushed up candy canes to use up the leftover candies from Christmas. I also only used half of the amount of butter to cut the calories and used 1 1/4 cup splenda instead. Overall, great and easy recipe!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
*Parsley*
United States
