Mardi Gras Cream Cheese Cookies
Mardi Gras Cream Cheese Cookies. These heavenly light as air cookies are a perfect way to celebrate Mardi Gras. They will melt in your mouth.
Mardi Gras Cream Cheese Cookies
What Is a Cream Cheese Cookie?
Made with cream cheese, this is a light as air cookies that is 100% addictive!
When To Serce Mardi Gras Cream Cheese Cookies
- Mardi Gras Party
- Brunch
- Fat Tuesday
Fun Sparkle TIp! Change up sprinkle colors to match any party or celebrations colors. Cream Cheese Cookies will never disappoint!
Mardi Gras Cream Cheese Cookies: Recipe
Ingredients
Cream Cheese Cookie Dough
- 1/2 cup butter
- 4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 3/4 cups cake flour, sifted
- yellow, purple, green sprinkles
Icing and Sprinkles
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1/2 teaspoon clear vanilla
- sprinkles
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Cream Cheese Cookie Instructions
Preheat oven to 375° F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
Whisk the baking powder into the cake flour. Set aside.
Cream together the butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer. Add the sugar and beat for 1 minute. Add egg and the extracts and beat until combined.
Two tablespoons at a time, add the cake flour mixture and continue mixing until just combined. Be careful to not over mix. This is a sticky dough.
Refrigerate the dough for an hour. This is an important step!
Sprinkle a little flour onto clean hands and roll the cream cheese cookie dough into 1 inch balls.
Dip a flat bottomed glass into flour and gently press each ball to flatten just a tiny bit. Don’t flatten too much or the cookies will not have a puffy cloud-like texture.
Bake for 9-12 minutes.
NOTE! KEEP AN EYE ON THESE CREAM CHEESE COOKIE BEAUTIES! Remove them from the oven the second the edges turn golden.
Immediately place them on a cooling rack to cool.
To make the icing, whisk together the powdered sugar, vanilla, and water until well combined.
Drizzle the cooled cream cheese cookies with the icing and sprinkle away.
Mardi Gras Cream Cheese Cookies
Ingredients
Cookie Dough
- 1/2 cup butter
- 4 ounces cream cheese room temperature
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 3/4 cups cake flour sifted
- yellow purple, green sprinkles
Icing
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1/2 teaspoon clear vanilla
- sprinkles
Instructions
Cream Cheese Cookie Dough
- Preheat oven to 375° F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Whisk the baking powder into the cake flour. Set aside.
- Cream together the butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer. Add the sugar and beat for 1 minute. Add egg and the extracts and beat until combined.
- Two tablespoons at a time, add the cake flour mixture and continue mixing until just combined. Be careful to not over mix. This is a sticky dough.
- Refrigerate the dough for an hour.
- Sprinkle a little flour onto clean hands and roll the dough into 1 inch balls.
- Dip a flat bottomed glass into flour and gently press each ball to flatten just a tiny bit. Don’t flatten too much or the cookies will not have a puffy cloud-like texture.
- Bake for 9-12 minutes.
NOTE
- KEEP AN EYE ON THESE BEAUTIES! Remove them from the oven the second the edges turn golden.
- Immediately place them on a cooling rack to cool.
ICING
- To make the icing, whisk together the powdered sugar, vanilla, and water until well combined.
- Drizzle the cooled cookies with the icing and sprinkle away.
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