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Cream the Butter and Cream Cheese
Beat the softened butter and cream cheese until smooth, then add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
Cream cheese keeps these cutout sugar cookies tender, with butter and a delicate almond-vanilla flavor in the dough. Dress the shapes with colored sugar or icing for a holiday tray that tastes as good as it looks.
Prep35 minCook45 minTotalAbout 5 hours 35 minutesDifficultyEasy
Ingredients
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Sugar Cookie Dough
Optional Toppings
Instructions
- 8 oz cream cheese, 1 cup salted butter, ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ½ tsp almond extract, 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
Nutrition (Approximate Per Serving)
Yield
About 4 to 5 dozen cookies, depending on cutter size — Serving size: 1 cookie
Some ingredients could not be modeled and may meaningfully change the totals. Treat these values as a rough estimate.
- Calories
- 85
- Carbohydrates
- 8 g
- Protein
- 1 g
- Fat
- 5.5 g
- Saturated Fat
- 3.5 g
- Cholesterol
- 10 mg
- Sodium
- 20 mg
- Fiber
- 0.2 g
- Total Sugars
- 3.5 g
