Snowflake Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie

Cut-out cookies are a favorite during the holiday season. They are traditionally made with regular sugar cookie dough, which creates a thin and crispy cookie, but what if you prefer thick and soft cookies? These snowflake cream cheese sugar cookies are the perfect solution! They are simple to make and so pretty when decorated. Add some beauty to your holiday cookie platter with this easy cream cheese sugar cookie recipe.

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Course: Cookies

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Snowflake Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies

Prep Time: 15

Cook Time: 10

Refrigeration Time for the dough: 8

Servings: cookies

Calories: 218kcal

Equipment

Snowflake cookie cutters

Ingredients

1 ½ cup sugar
1 cup 2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
8 ounce package cream cheese room temperature
1 egg room temperature
½ teaspoon almond extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 ½ cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 container white icing
white jimmies
white sprinkles

Instructions

For the cookies:

In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter and cream cheese at medium speed until well blended and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.
Add the egg, almond extract, and vanilla extract. Beat again until smooth and creamy, about 5 additional minutes.
In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, about ½ cup at a time, stirring until mixed.
Shape the dough into a rectangle and wrap with plastic wrap. Refrigerate overnight.
When ready to bake, preheat the oven 375 degrees. Prepare two or three large rimmed, baking sheets with parchment paper.
Roll out the cookie dough to ½ inch thick. Cut with cookie cutters and transfer to the baking sheet. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or just until the edges are set and the cookies are puffed.
Allow the cookies to cool completely on the baking sheets. Decorate as desired.

To make easy royal icing from store bought:

Using a store bought container of white icing, spoon all of the icing into a medium-sized microwave safe bowl.
Place the bowl in the microwave and heat for 30 seconds. Stir well. Repeat in 15 second increments if needed until icing has thinned out.
Allow the icing to cool slightly before frosting the cookies.
For piping a line around a cookie, leave the icing slightly thick so it pours from the spoon in steady plops. For an icing loose enough to flood the cookie, heat the icing until it is even and pourable.

To decorate:

Apply frosting as desired to completely cooled cookies.
While the frosting is still wet, apply desired sprinkles, candies, and decorations.
Allow icing to completely dry before storing in an airtight container.

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