Cream Cheese Frosted Sugar Cookies–these are the best twist on the classic sugar cookie. With a crispy outside, chewy inside, and a thick and delicious frosting, these are the perfect addition to any holiday, event, or any last-minute plans!
These cookies only take a whole of 25 minutes and that includes preparing, baking, cooling, and frosting. This recipe is so simple and quick and they even. crackle a bit when baking, so they’re even pretty without the icing.
So the first thing you’re going to want to do is to preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Get out your cookie sheet and spray it with nonstick cooking spray.
The next thing you’re going to want to do is to take out 2 sticks of butter and let them soften. Next, gather all your dry ingredients, including flour, baking soda and powder, and salt, and mix them together. Once your butter is softened, cream it together with the granulated sugar and brown sugar until smooth and creamy. Then add in your egg and vanilla extract and combine.
Slowly begin to add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Mix until it the dough forms a ball. The dough should be thick and not sticky. Now you’re going to form them in 24 large balls. It’ll be about 1 1/2-2 tbsp of dough per ball, but they don’t have to be perfect, but try your best to make them even.
Once you have them portioned into balls, place them on your cookie sheet and press them slightly down with the palm of your hand, but don’t completely flatten them out. Place them into the oven and let them bake for about 9-10 minutes. Let them cool for 4-5 minutes on the cookie sheet then transfer them onto a cooling rack.
The frosting is just a basic recipe for cream cheese frosting. You’ll need 1 stick of softened butter and a block of cream cheese softened. You’ll beat them with either a stand mixer or a handheld mixer until smooth. Slowly add in the powdered sugar until thick and creamy (and you can add up to 1/2 cup more if you want it thicker). To frost the cookies, you can spread it on like butter on toast, or you can pipe it on.
Cream Cheese Frosted Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
Sugar Cookies
Cream Cheese Frosting
Instructions
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