Cream Cheese Cookies

i had exactly 5 oz of cream cheese after making the velvet pound cake so I searched for recipes to use it up. This sounded tasty and easy: Cream Cheese Cookies

Cream Cheese Cookies

Ingredients

5 oz cream cheese, soft
3 oz cup butter, soft
8 oz cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder
8 oz all purpose flour

Preheat oven to 325F and prepare a baking pan with parchment paper.

In a large bowl, beat together the butter and the cream cheese. Slowly, mix in sugar at medium speed until light and fluffy. Finally, beat in the egg, the vanilla extract and the salt.

In a small bowl, mix together the baking powder and the flour and slowly add them to the cream cheese mixture.

Spoon the batter onto the baking pan. Bake at 325F for 12-14 minutes, or until the bottom edge just barely turns brown.

Baking Tip: Make sure you do not over bake them. When the bottom edge starts to turn brown they still seem not cooked at all on top but they actually are! After 10 minutes I usually move them on a higher rack in the oven.

Makes about 30 cookies.