Cream Cheese Refrigerator Cookies
Buttermilk and cream cheese add a tangy, bittersweet flavor to this holiday dessert. Cream Cheese Refrigerator Cookies are great on winter nights when you're tired of chocolate and oatmeal.
Notes
I modify the recipe slightly by omitting the buttermilk and doubling the cream cheese. I then drop in spoonfulls onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 well beaten egg
- 3 ounces package cream cheese, softened
- 2 tablespoons buttermilk or yogurt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups sifted flour
- 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon double-acting baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Blend until creamy the butter, sugar and egg.
- Beat cream cheese into the butter mixture with buttermilk and vanilla. Beat in flour, soda, baking powder and salt.
- After being chilled (a couple of hours or so) this dough may be rolled to paper thinness, cut into shapes and baked.
- Sprinkle before baking with sugar and cinnamon.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and bake from 12 to 15 minutes.
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