Wednesday, December 16, 2009

#1522 - Cream Cheese Cutout Sugar Cookies

(by Shirley McNevich)

4 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup softened butter
1/2 cup Crisco shortening
1 - 8oz. Philadelphia cream cheese (softened)
1 1/3 cups white sugar
1 egg
2 tsp. vanilla

In a mixer add cream cheese, butter and Crisco--beat. Add white sugar--beat. Add egg, salt, baking soda and vanilla--beat. Slowly add flour--beat. Refrigerate the dough for 4 hours (covered). Remove dough from refrigerator, divide dough into 4 pieces. Flour your counter, place one dough ball on the flour, flour the top of the dough, and use a rolling pin to roll the dough to 1/8" thick. Cut cookies with cookie cutters. Place on greased cookie sheets--bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes. Cool completely. Repeat with the rest of the dough (keep other dough refrigerated while working with other dough). Frost as desired (you can use our frosting recipe--it's #2 on this blog).

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