Cream Cheese Cookies from Rachel H.

Wonderful!

If you are interested in making some DIE-FOR sugar cookies, try this recipe. It is awesome!! (BTW, I usually DOUBLE IT)Cream Cheese Cut-outs: 1/2 c. buttter1 -3 oz pkg.chrm cheese2 c. flour1 c. sugar1 egg1/2 tsp baking powder1/2 tsp. vanillaDirections: "In mixing bowl combine butter and crm cheese with a mixer on med to high speed for 30 sec. Add about HALF the flour, sugar, egg, bkg powder, and vanilla. Beat til thoroughly combined. Beat in remaining flour. Cover & chill 1 hr till easy to handle. Divide chilled dough on half, roll to desired thickness btween 1/8th to 1/4 in. thick. (Thicker=softer cookies, thinner=chrunchier cookies) Cut with cookie cutters, and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 for about 8 minutes.
# posted by Rachel H : 2/06/2007 06:52:00 AM

p.s., I have done my own frosting to go with these, and it is very naughty but yummy. Combine 1 part softened butter with about 1/2 part cream cheese (to taste) and enough powdered sugar to get the consistency you want. Then add a TEENY bit of vanilla or almond, but not too much or it will color the frosting yellow. Then I add food coloring to make the pretty colors I want. Quick and easy tip for frosting bags, I use snack size zip-lock bags and fill them with frosting, tape off the zippy parts and snip varying size holes in the bottom corner of a bunch of bags. They become the perfect easy froster bags, dispsable once the frosting is used up!
# posted by Rachel H : 2/06/2007 07:02:00 AM