You'll have to excuse the bad quality pictures because they were all taken with my iphone.
They are my all time favorite cookies. I do, however, get really stressed every time we make them because it takes so long to cut each one out and I have three kids helping me. I usually end up going to bed in a bad mood, but the kids have fun and that is all that matters.
Here they are all stacked up after they had been cutout and baked.
We ran out of time, so the kids are going to put the glaze on tomorrow, (which is today now), but I had to add some glaze to a few cookies that I had to take to work.
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Here is the recipe:
Cookies:
1 cup butter, softened
1 (8-ounce) package of cream cheese, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almont extract
3 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
In a mixing bowl, mix butter and cream cheese until smooth. Then add sugar until fluffy. Then add egg, vanilla and almond extract until smooth. Last, add baking bowder and flour a little at a time.
Divide dough in half and place in fridge, covered, for about an hour to hour 1/2. After dough has cooled, I sift some flour on table so the dough doesn't stick and then I roll our and cut the cookies with the desired shape cookie cutter.
Bake at 375 for 7-8 minutes depending on the type of baking sheet you have. I use parchment paper on my pans as well.
We used a teddy bear, diamond, octagon, star and heart because I couldn't find any christmas shapes. I'm not sure what we did with them after we used them last year because they weren't in their normal spot. I bet the kids used them to cut out playdouh.
Glaze:
1 1/2 cups of sifted confectioners sugar
2 to 3 tablespoons of water or milk
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
food coloring of your choice
In a small mixing bowl, mix sugar, water and vanilla until smooth. Spoon a little in ziplock bags and add food coloring. Then cut a very small hole in the bottom, corner of each bag and drizzle over cookies.
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If you make them, let me know how you like them.
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