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Holiday Sugar Cookies Recipe

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Cream cheese helps create the rich, melt-in-your-mouth taste of these perfect cookies. Forget any other sugar cookie recipe-this is the only one you need! Julie Brunette, Green Bay Wisconsin

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Holiday Sugar Cookies Recipe

Prep: 40 min. Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling

Yield: 48 Servings

40 10 50

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1 package (3 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
Tinted frosting, coarse sugar and/or colored sugar

Directions

In a large bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and extracts. Combine the flour, salt and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 3 hours or until easy to handle.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 2-1/2-in. cookie cutter. Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 8-10 minutes or until edges begin to brown. Cool for 2 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Decorate as desired. Yield: 4 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 cookie equals 78 calories, 5 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 16 mg cholesterol, 64 mg sodium, 9 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1 fat, 1/2 starch.

Originally published as Holiday Sugar Cookies in Taste of Home December/January 2010, p58

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Reviewed on Dec. 08, 2011 by Mizgoodie

I made these cookies today and they are wonderful. Nice light taste, crisp on the outside but not dry in the least. I will make them over and over again!

Reviewed on Feb. 10, 2011 by maupinsgirl

Even my mom, who hates sugar cookies, loved these!

Reviewed on Dec. 05, 2010 by madfinn654321

How do you decorate these?

Reviewed on Dec. 05, 2010 by cynthia43

whats the frosting recipe?

Reviewed on Sep. 15, 2010 by cheriwinkle

tline-cream cheese used to be commonly available in both 3-oz. and 8-oz. pkgs. The 3-oz. pkgs. aren't as easily found these days, but do still exist as far as I know.

Reviewed on Jan. 07, 2010 by chadswife31

I LOVE these cookies - try substituting butter flavoring for the almond extract - you won't be sorry!

Reviewed on Jan. 07, 2010 by chadswife31

I LOVE these cookies - try substituting butter flavoring for the almond extract - you won't be sorry!

Reviewed on Jan. 02, 2010 by SMBSLT

these taste great and were easy to roll and cut. I will definitely make these a regular part of my holiday baking from now on. I did not try to ornament variation, just the regular cookie version. Delicious!