This perfectly soft Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies Recipe makes the ultimate cutout cookie!
Prep Time30 minutesmins
Cook Time10 minutesmins
Total Time40 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cookie, cookie decorating, easy
Servings: 4dozen
Ingredients
1 2/3 cupsGranulated {White} Sugar
1cup Unsalted Buttersoftened {use high quality butter}
8 ozCream Cheese bricksoftened
1largeEgg
1tspVanilla Extract
1/2tsp Almond Extract
3 1/2cupsAll-Purpose Flour
1tspBaking Powder
1/2tspSalt
1/2cup Powdered Sugarfor rolling and cutting out cookies
Instructions
In large bowl, combine Sugar, softened Butter, softened Cream Cheese, Egg, Vanilla Extract and Almond Extract, and beat with mixer until well combined.
In separate bowl, combine Flour, Baking Powder, and Salt, and whisk ingredients together.
Gradually pour flour mixture into Butter/Cream Cheese mixture, and continue mixing until all has been well combined.
Divide dough into 3 portions, flatten into discs, wrap each portion in plastic wrap, then transfer to the refrigerator. Allow dough to chill overnight, or at least a minimum of 8 hours.
When you're ready to bake your cookies, preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Generously coat a large cutting board with powdered sugar, and remove 1 portion of dough from the refrigerator at a time. Sprinkle the top and bottom of the dough with additional powdered sugar, and generously cover your rolling pin with powdered sugar.
Roll dough out to 1/8" thickness, then cut out shapes using cookie cutters, and carefully transfer to parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
As the dough warms up, it will become more sticky, so work quickly and wrap up any leftover scraps in plastic wrap, and store them in the refrigerator.
Bake 9 - 12 minutes, or until cookies are done and edges begin turning golden brown. {bake times will vary based upon thickness, types of cookie sheets being used, ovens, and elevation} Once done, remove from oven, and allow to cool for a few minutes on the cookie sheet, then transfer to wire racks to finish cooling.
Continue rolling and baking cookies, 1 small portion of dough at a time, generously coating your cutting board and rolling pin with powdered sugar as you go, until all of the dough has been used up.
Once cookies have cooled completely, have fun frosting, decorating, and eating. YUM!
Store leftover unfrosted and frosted cookies in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
Prep Ahead Tip: Dough can be made ahead of time and stored up to 3 days in the refrigerator prior to baking.
Freezer Tip: Baked sugar cookies that have not yet been frosted can be frozen in a freezer safe container up to 1 month. If stacking cookies in the container, place a sheet of parchment paper between each layer.
Notes
*You could also roll out on flour, but when you roll out on powdered sugar your cookies will stay perfectly sweet.