Your Favorite Series: Cream Cheese Cookies with Confectioners Sugar Glaze

Sue from NJ

I would love to have a true heritage recipe; but my mom was an excellent cook and I had a grandmother who worked at a German bakery in New York.  Our tables were always filled with excellent sweets, but not always homemade.

I stumbled upon a cookie recipe many, many years ago.  After a little changing, it has become a 'go to' for me no matter what the holiday or celebration with just a change of the cookie cutter and decoration. 

Cream Cheese Cookies with Confectioners Sugar Glaze

Cookie Ingredients: 

1C Sugar
1C  Butter (2 sticks) softened
4 oz Cream Cheese, softened
1/4 tsp Salt
1 tsp Vanilla
1 Egg Yolk
2 1/4 C All Purpose Flour

Glaze Ingredients:

1C  Confectioners Sugar
1/4 tsp Vanilla Extract
2-3 T  Milk

Decoration:
Assorted colored sugars

Directions:

Cream sugar, butter, cream cheese, salt and egg yolk until light.  Add flour, blending well.  Divide dough into two sections covering with plastic wrap.  Chill dough at least 1 hour. 

Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.  Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Using one section at a time, roll the dough to 1/8 - 1/4 inch thick.  Cut into desired shapes and bake 7-10 minutes or until a light golden on the bottom of the cookie.  The size of the cookie will determine the baking time;  adjust accordingly.  Cool cookies on a rack. 

Once cookies are cooled, make the glaze.  Combine all ingredients together to desired consistency.  Brush over cooled cookies and add colored sugars as desired.   Enjoy!