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Easy Cream Cheese Cookies Recipe

5 from 1 vote
Easy and delicious cream cheese cookie recipe using simple ingredients that's easy to customize to your liking! Dress them up with icing for the holidays or keep them lighter for Spring time!
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Prep Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Servings: 18 cookies
Course: Desserts
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup butter room temperature
  • 4 ounces cream cheese room temperature
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 3/4 cups cake flour can substitiue all purpose flour
  • 1 egg room temperature

Method
 

  1. Use an electric mixer to beat the cream cheese and butter together until well blended.
  2. Add sugar, egg, vanilla extract and baking powder until blended.
  3. Add the flour, a little at a time until well blended.
  4. Place the dough in the refrigerator for one hour.
  5. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  6. Using floured hands, roll your dough into balls and place on ungreased baking sheet. You can line the sheet with parchment paper if you don't have a non-stick cookie sheet.
  7. Bake for approximately 10 minutes. The bottom edges will brown first so keep an eye on that.

Notes

If your dough is too dry, you can add several more drops of vanilla extract as needed.  You can also add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice if preferred.
To make a simple icing for these cookies mix the following ingredients together in a bowl and drizzle over the cookies with a spoon:
1 Cup Powdered Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla
1-2 Tablespoons Milk
Enjoy!