Sometimes sugar cookies can be a bit too sweet. These cookie sheet cream cheese sugar cookies are the perfect amount of sweet with a touch of tart.
I take these cookies with me to parties and church activities. I always get people asking for the recipe.
Another crowd pleaser are my peanut butter fingers in a cookie sheet
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Ingredients Needed for Cookie Sheet Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
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- Unsalted butter
- Cream cheese
- Sugar
- Egg
- Almond extract
- Vanilla extract
- Baking soda
- Baking powder
- Flour
See recipe card for quantities.
Instructions for Cookie Sheet Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
Combine butter and cream cheese and mix 1 minute. Add sugar, mix until smooth. Add the rest of the wet ingredients and mix until smooth.
combine all of the dry ingredients at once and mix in slowly. Mix until all flour is incorporated. Don't over mix.
Dump dough on to an ungrease cookie sheet
Spread around the cookie sheet. It will cover the whole area. I sprinkle flour over the top and use a spatula to spread it.
Once spread place in the oven at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
Hint: After the cookies come out of the oven. Let cool and then stick into the freezer before and after frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- Unsalted butter
- Cream cheese
- Powdered sugar
- Vanilla extract
- Salt
- Milk
- Food coloring
First cream cream cheese, butter and powdered sugar until it looks like this. I use my paddle to mix frosting. It will take roughly 1 minute to get to this point. Add remaining ingredients and mix. Add milk until it is the consistency you want.
After the cookie is cold I pull it out of the freezer and added the frosting. I then stick it back into the freezer. I find these cookie sheet cream cheese sugar cookies are better when cold.
Here they are all frosted. You can add food coloring to your frosting as well. To cut I just use a sharp knife.
Equipment
Storage
I store these cookies in the fridge with the lid on the cookie sheet. They last for several days. You can freeze them too if they need to sit for longer.
Cookie Sheet Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
Equipment
- 1 Kitchenaid
- 1 wire mixer
- 1 paddle mixer
- 1 spatula
- 1 cookie sheet
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 8 oz cream cheese regular
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 ½ cups flour
Frosting
- ½ cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 4 oz cream cheese only regular
- 3 ½ - 4 cups powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- milk to thin as needed
Instructions
- Sugar Cookie DoughHeat over to 350 degreesAdd 1 cup of butter and 8 oz of cream cheese and cream in mixer for about 1 minute. Add sugar and mix for an additional minute.Add egg, almond and vanilla extract and blend until smoothAdd all dry ingredients at once and mix until all ingredients are incorporated. Don't over mixDump on to cookie sheet and spread with a spatula. You can sprinkle flour on the top of the dough to help spreading. Bake at 350 for 20 to 25 minutes. Cook until the top is light golden brown.
- Sugar Cookie FrostingCream ½ cup unsalted butter, 4 oz softened cream cheese and powdered sugar in a mixer.Add vanilla and salt and beat until smoothAdd milk a little at a time until frosting is spreading consistency.After the sugar cookies are cold top with frosting.
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