Description
A soft, chewy, and flavorful sugar cookie. It is very important to chill the dough, as it is too sticky to roll unless well chilled.
Ingredients
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Beat sugar
- butter
- cream cheese
- egg yolk
- salt
- almond extract
- and vanilla in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. Gradually mix in flour.
- Divide dough into thirds and form each piece into a disc. Wrap tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate
- 8 hours or overnight.
- When ready to bake
- preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Working with one disc at a time
- roll dough on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of 1/8 inch; keep other discs refrigerated until ready to roll.
- Cut dough into desired shapes with lightly floured cookie cutters. Place cookies 1 inch apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are light golden brown
- 7 to 10 minutes
- switching racks halfway through. Remove from the oven and transfer to wire racks.
- Repeat Steps 4 to 6 to bake remaining batches.
- Cool cookies completely before frosting.
Servings: 72