Mardi Gras Cream Cheese Cookies
Mardi Gras Cream Cheese Cookies. These heavenly light as air cookies are a perfect way to celebrate Mardi Gras. They will melt in your mouth.
Ingredients
Cookie Dough
- 1/2 cup butter
- 4 ounces cream cheese room temperature
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 3/4 cups cake flour sifted
- yellow purple, green sprinkles
Icing
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1/2 teaspoon clear vanilla
- sprinkles
Instructions
Cream Cheese Cookie Dough
- Preheat oven to 375° F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Whisk the baking powder into the cake flour. Set aside.
- Cream together the butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer. Add the sugar and beat for 1 minute. Add egg and the extracts and beat until combined.
- Two tablespoons at a time, add the cake flour mixture and continue mixing until just combined. Be careful to not over mix. This is a sticky dough.
- Refrigerate the dough for an hour.
- Sprinkle a little flour onto clean hands and roll the dough into 1 inch balls.
- Dip a flat bottomed glass into flour and gently press each ball to flatten just a tiny bit. Don't flatten too much or the cookies will not have a puffy cloud-like texture.
- Bake for 9-12 minutes.
NOTE
- KEEP AN EYE ON THESE BEAUTIES! Remove them from the oven the second the edges turn golden.
- Immediately place them on a cooling rack to cool.
ICING
- To make the icing, whisk together the powdered sugar, vanilla, and water until well combined.
- Drizzle the cooled cookies with the icing and sprinkle away.
Nutrition
Serving: 18gCalories: 138kcalCarbohydrates: 26gProtein: 3gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.3gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 14mgSodium: 606mgPotassium: 33mgFiber: 0.3gSugar: 0.5gVitamin A: 166IUVitamin C: 0.1mgCalcium: 32mgIron: 0.1mg
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