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Cream Cheese Cutouts Recipe

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Decorating cookies always puts me in a happy mood. Cookies from this recipe don't rise a lot or lose their shape. —Julie Dawson, Galena, Ohio

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Cream Cheese Cutouts Recipe

Prep: 15 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling

Yield: 84 Servings

15 10 25

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1 package (3 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
FROSTING:
3 cups confectioners' sugar
1/3 cup butter, softened
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 to 3 tablespoons 2% milk
Food coloring, optional
Assorted sprinkles or candies

Directions

In a large bowl, cream butter, cream cheese, sugar and salt until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually beat in flour. Refrigerate, covered, 1-2 hours or until firm enough to roll.
Preheat oven to 375°. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with floured cookie cutters. Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets.
Bake 7-8 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Cool on pans 1 minute. Remove to wire racks to cool completely.
In a small bowl, beat confectioners' sugar, butter, vanilla and enough milk to reach desired consistency. If desired, add food coloring. Decorate cookies with frosting and sprinkles. Yield: about 7 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 cookie equals 70 calories, 3 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 11 mg cholesterol, 32 mg sodium, 10 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein.

Originally published as Cream Cheese Cutouts in Country Woman November/December 2003, p10

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Enjoy this recipe with a sweet white wine such as Moscato or a sweet Riesling.

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Reviewed on Feb. 22, 2011 by mm-mm

Sorry.........I forgot to give it my 5 stars!

Reviewed on Feb. 22, 2011 by mm-mm

This is simply THE BEST sugar cookies I have ever made and tasted. With or without frosting, no other recipe I have ever tried comes close. The flavor, the texture, and the aroma while baking is out of this world.

Reviewed on Nov. 21, 2009 by cassieandra23

first time i made them, everyone loved them.. not a single one left.. since then i've made them a lot more and people just gobble them up.