Easy Sugar Cookies  & Glaze

Kay's Clean Eats

"Sugar cookies are the perfect year-round holiday cookie! They are, soft, chewy, sweet, and oh so much fun to decorate with your family and friends!"

Kay's Clean Eats

Cream Cheese

Key Ingredient

– sugar – light brown sugar – unsalted butter – cream cheese – vanilla extract – flour – dash of salt For the glaze: – confectioners sugar – milk – natural food coloring

Ingredients

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Easy Sugar  Cookies & Glaze

Yield

34 COOKIES

totoal TIME

52 MINUTES

PREP Time

12 MINUTES

Instructions

1. Using an electric mixer mix flour, sugar, and salt till combined, about 15 seconds. With the mixer on low add in your butter pieces, beat the mixture till crumbly, about 2 minutes.

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2. Add in the vanilla extract and cream cheese, beat until dough starts looking crumbly about 45 seconds.

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3. Knead dough by hand and form into a cohesive ball. Transfer to a cutting board and cut in half.   Form both balls into flat disks and place them in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 30 minutes ( dough can be refrigerated for up to 3 days or frozen for up to 1 month)

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4. Adjust oven rack to middle and preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Prepare 2 cookie sheets with nonstick spray or parchment paper.

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5. Working with one disk on a clean surface. Flour your surface and roll your dough 1/8 inch thick. Use cookie cutters to cut shapes from the dough. Peel away scrapes with a thin metal spatula. Space cookies 1 inch apart on cookie sheet.

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6. With the scrapes pat together, roll, and use cookie-cutter, repeat till done. Bake cookies 1 sheet at a time for 8-10 minutes rotate sheet halfway through baking. Let cookies cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack. Let cookies completely cool before glazing.

For the marble glaze:

1. Whisk confectioners sugar and milk together till combined, no clumps. Pour enough glaze to dip your cookie in a shallow bowl. Add just as few drops of food coloring and with a toothpick barley swirl.

For the marble glaze:

2. Carefully dip the tops of your cookies into the glaze then remove allowing the excess to drip off. Transfer to a wire rack at let set. It takes about an hour to set, let them completely set before storing them in Tupperware.

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Enjoy!

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