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Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies

These sugar cookies with cream cheese are soft, chewy, and simple to make by rolling out the chilled dough, cutting out desired shapes, and icing.
Makes:72 servings

Ingredients

  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon almond extract
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2¼ cups all-purpose flour

Directions

Prep:30 mCook:15 mReady:8 h 45 m
  1. Gather the ingredients.
  2. Beat together sugar, butter, cream cheese, egg yolk, salt, almond extract, and vanilla in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth.
  3. Gradually mix in flour until dough comes together.
  4. Divide dough into thirds and form each piece into a disk. Wrap tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate, 8 hours to overnight.
  5. When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
  6. Working with one disk at a time, roll dough on a lightly floured surface to an 1/8-inch thickness; keep other disks refrigerated until ready to roll.
  7. Cut dough into desired shapes with lightly floured cookie cutters. Place cookies 1 inch apart onto ungreased baking sheets.
  8. Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are light golden brown, 7 to 10 minutes, switching racks halfway through. Remove from the oven and transfer cookies to wire racks.
  9. Cool cookies completely before frosting.

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