Cherry Chip Cream Cheese Cookies Food

CHERRY CREAM CHEESE COOKIES

Steps:

• Using an electric mixer, cream butter and cream cheese together. Add sugar, egg, and almond extract and mix until well combined. Sift dry ingredients together over the mixer bowl; mix on lowest speed until combined.
• Chill dough for at least 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Form dough into 1 inch balls. (Cookies turn out best when the dough balls are tiny.) Roll each ball in the chopped walnuts and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Press a half cherry into each cookie.
• Bake for 9-12 minutes, until barely set and lightly golden on the bottom. Be careful not to over-bake.

CREAM CHEESE COOKIES I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease cookie sheets.
• In a large bowl, cream together butter, cream cheese, and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla. Stir in flour until well blended. Drop dough by spoonfuls or use a cookie press to place onto prepared cookie sheets. If using floral cookie press design, make an indentation in the center with a thimble, fill with preserves, or press candy into center.
• Bake for 15 minutes in preheated oven. Cookies should be pale.

CHERRY CHIP COOKIES I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
• Combine margarine, confectioner's sugar and vanilla. Beat until fluffy. Add flour, baking soda and oats. Mix well. Stir in cherry flavored chips (other flavors work well, too!).
• Drop by rounded teaspoonful onto ungreased cookie sheets and flatten slightly with fingers. Bake for 12 minutes. Remove immediately from cookie sheets and onto wire racks to cool.

CREAM CHEESE COOKIES

Steps:

• Position an oven rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 325 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment.
• Combine the butter, vanilla, 4 ounces of the room-temperature cream cheese and 1 teaspoon of the salt in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until creamy, about 1 minute. Add 2 cups of the sugar and beat until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the egg yolk and beat until smooth, then add the flour and beat on low until the dough just comes together. Remove the frozen cream cheese from the freezer and chop into 1/4-inch cubes. Add the cubes to the dough, quickly stirring with a rubber spatula to evenly incorporate them into the dough. Refrigerate the dough for 1 hour.
• Using a 1-ounce ice cream scoop or 2 tablespoons, scoop 12 portions of dough, roll into balls and transfer to the prepared baking sheet, spacing them evenly apart. Lightly flour the bottom of a 1/2-cup measuring cup and use it to flatten each cookie into a disk about 1/2 inch thick, re-flouring the cup after each cookie.
• Bake, rotating the baking sheet halfway through, until the cookies look set but are still pale and barely brown on the bottom, 20 to 24 minutes. Cool the cookies on the baking sheet for 1 minute, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat with the remaining cookie dough.
• Meanwhile, combine the remaining 2 ounces room-temperature cream cheese, 2 cups sugar and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a medium bowl and beat with an electric mixer on low speed until the mixture forms a thick paste. Add the milk and stir slowly until a thick glaze forms.
• When the cookies are cool, dip the entire surface of the top of each cookie in the glaze and lift up, letting the excess glaze drip off, then flip the cookie right-side up and onto the cooling rack. If the glaze is too thick, add another teaspoon of milk to loosen it. If using the cranberries or lime zest, sprinkle on top of the cookies while the glaze is still wet. Allow the glaze to set before serving, at least 10 minutes. Store the cookies in a single layer in an airtight container for up to 5 days.

CHERRY CREAM CHEESE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat Oven to 375'.
• In a large bowl, cream together butter and cream cheese until fluffy.
• Stir in Remaining Ingredients. (dough will be a bit stiff).
• Drop by rounded tablespoonsful about 1 inch apart onto ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake about 8-10 minutes. Watch them closely and don't let them get too brown.
• Remove to wire rack to cool.
• Yield is approximate.

COCONUT CREAM CHEESE DROP COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream together the butter, cream cheese, sugar, salt, and vanilla.
• Add egg and milk; beat well.
• Stir in the flour and toasted coconut.
• Drop cookie batter from teaspoons onto ungreased baking sheet then press a pecan half or cherry half into the top of each.
• Bake at 325° for 18 to 20 minutes.
• Remove cookies to a rack to cool.
• Makes about 5 dozen cookies.
• *Totoast coconut in the oven, spread coconut on a baking sheet in a single layer.
• Bake at 325°, stirring occasionally, until golden brown, about 10 minutes.

CREAM CHEESE COOKIE CUPS

Steps:

• Cut cookie dough in half (save 1 portion for another use). With floured hands, press about 1 tablespoon of dough onto the bottom and up the sides of 12 ungreased miniature muffin cups. Bake at 350° until lightly browned, 8-10 minutes. , Using the end of a wooden spoon handle, reshape the puffed cookie cups. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely., In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter and vanilla until smooth. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar. Spoon into cookie cups. Store in the refrigerator.

CHERRY CREAM CHEESE COOKIES

Steps:

• In a food processor or electric mixer, combine the flour, cream cheese, and butter.
• With your hands, gather the dough into a ball, flatten it, and wrap in plastic wrap.
• Refrigerate for at least 1 hour or up to 24 hours.
• Preheat oven to 375-degrees F. Butter a baking sheet.
• Divide the dough into 2 equal pieces.
• Roll each piece out on a floured surface to a 12x8-inch rectangle.
• Spread each with 1/4 cup of the jam.
• Top each with 1/2 cup coconut and 1/2 cup cherries.
• Starting at the longer end, roll each up jelly-roll style. Seal the seam with your fingers.
• Cut each roll into 12 slices.
• Place cookies on prepared sheet.
• Slightly flatten each cookie so they are of even thickness.
• Bake 25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack.

CREAM CHEESE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F Lightly grease cookie sheets.
• In a large bowl, cream together butter, cream cheese, and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in egg yolk and vanilla.
• Stir in flour until well blended.
• Drop dough by spoonfuls onto cookie sheet (or use a cookie press). If desired, make an indentation in the center with your thumb or other object; fill with preserves, or press candy into center.
• Bake for 15 minutes in preheated oven.
• Cookies should be pale.