Cream Cheese Cookies

Cream Cheese Cookies are a different kind of cream cheese dessert recipe. They are soft, chewy and not too sweet.

It is important that you take the cream cheese out of the refrigerator about an hour before you start this recipe so it will be soft enough to mix with the other ingredients.

They can be decorated with icing and sprinkles or you can customize these for different holidays by adding food coloring in the batter.

Cream Cheese Cookie Recipe

Ingredients: 1 cup butter, softened 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened 1 cup white sugar 1 egg yolk 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

Preparation: 1 Preheat oven to 325 degrees F Lightly grease cookie sheets. In a large bowl cream together butter, cream cheese, and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla. Stir in flour until well blended. Drop dough by spoonfuls or use a cookie press to place onto prepared cookie sheets. Bake for 15 minutes in preheated oven. Cookies should be pale.