Sunday, March 2, 2008

Cream Cheese Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup Crisco shortening
1 (3 ounce) package Philadelphia Cream Cheese (room temperature)
1 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all purpose plain Pillsbury flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
red decorator colored sprinkles or candy hearts
Mirror cookie press

Directions:

Cream together the shortening and cheese well with electric mixer.
Gradually add sugar and continue creaming beat in egg yoke and vanilla extract. In another bowl sift together dry ingredients, flour, salt, cinnamon. Gradually add dry mixture to creamed mixture and continue to blend until well mixed. Now that you have the dough ready, just fill your cookie press and select an appropriate holiday design and form fancy cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet. To decorate, sprinkle colored sugar or hearts atop. Bake at 325 degrees
for 10-12 minutes. Bake at only 10 minutes if you prefer the edges to be slightly golden brown.

Thanks to Sapphire Phelan!

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