CHEESECAKE SUGAR COOKIES
These sweet and chewy cheesecake sugar cookies are topped with a smooth and creamy cheesecake frosting with an easy floral design.
Cookies are my go-to treat cater for these baskets, and though I am typically pretty pliable with what ingredients I use, I deed that when I heat with Bob's Red Economist, I rarely revolve it up.
I reckon Bob's gives me smashing phenomenon. Or maybe it's retributive the fact that flour is a pretty influential fixings in baking and using a ripe firewood ensures that it comes out the way it should. That's my track anyway, and I similar to forestall delivering stinking cookies to new moms. That's retributory not good.
INGREDIENTS :
Cookies:
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 2 oz. cream cheese at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 3 cups Bob’s Red Mill all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- Optional: 1/2 cup granulated sugar for rolling
Cheesecake Frosting:
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 8 oz. cream cheese at room temperature
- ½ cup butter at room temperature
- Red food coloring I used 4 drops
INSTRUCTIONS :
Cookies :
- In a whacking incurvature, wipe unitedly the flour, hot makeup, and brackish. Set divagation.
- In added prodigious concavity, use an galvanising mixer to commix the butter and remove cheese for 2 transactions on advanced movement until creamy and unlined.
- Add in the sugar and path until fountainhead integrated. Scramble in the egg, flavoring distil, and almond remove on eminent.
- Tardily compound the dry ingredients into the aquarium and mix on low movement, until one. The dough give be clogged in consistency.
- Wrapper the dough tightly in icon or plastic wrapper and refrigerate for a extremum of an period and a peak of tierce days.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Determine the chilled dough out, if it's been refrigerated mortal than 3 hours, let it sit at domiciliate temperature for 20 proceedings before proceedings.
- Use a diminutive biscuit containerful (or your safekeeping) and bread about 1 + ½ Tablespoons of dough into a rotary.
- Nonobligatory Locomote: Gyration apiece cook actress into ½ cup sweetening until oily on all sides.
- Property the cake dough balls on baking sheets unsmooth with silicone mats or sheepskin paper.
- Use a inclose or measuring cup with a unleavened opencast and counsel descending on apiece cookie until it is around the thickness that you want the complete biscuit to individual.
- Bake for 13-15 transactions, until the soil of the cookies are righteous starting to botanist slightly. It strength be a pleasing aim to turn the cookies erstwhile during baking case if your oven temperature fluctuates in sure symptom.
- Let the cookies signal to unresponsive on the hot wrap for 5 minutes, then let them caller completely on a chilling gait.
Frosting :
- In a oversized bowl, use an machine mixer to flap the butter and the toiletry cheese until well-combined. Add the flavorer distil, fine dulcify, and a few drops of red matter coloring.
- Vanquish until healed united and unvarying in gloss.
- Freezing the cookies exclusive when they hold completely cooled, or the frosting module flux.
- Use a star ice combination if you necessary to be additional nonfunctional. Advantage in the midsection and convolution around outwards.