This recipe for cream cheese sugar cookies produces a soft, chewy, and flavorful sugar cookie.
Easy Sugar Cookie Bars
I am curious if adding cream cheese and cocoa powder would be ok, and if i would need to change any of.
Recipe Summary Easy Sugar Cookie Bars
I love sugar cookies, but hate how much time they take to make. These bars are quick, easy, and best of all, yummy!Ingredients | Soft Sugar Cookie Recipes With Cream Cheese
1 ½ cups white sugar
1 cup butter, at room temperature
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon almond extract
2 ½ cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ cup butter, softened
½ (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
3 ½ cups confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons milk, or more as needed
3 drops green food coloring
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 13x18-inch rimmed baking sheet.
Combine white sugar, 1 cup butter, 8 ounces cream cheese, and egg in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until well mixed, about 4 minutes. Beat in 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and almond extract. Mix in flour, baking powder, and baking soda until dough comes together.
Press dough evenly over the greased baking sheet.
Bake in the preheated oven until lightly golden, about 20 minutes. Let cool completely, 10 to 20 minutes.
Beat 1/2 cup butter and 4 ounces cream cheese together in a bowl until smooth. Beat in confectioners' sugar. Thin icing with milk and vanilla extract. Split icing between 2 bowls. Mix green food coloring into 1 bowl.
Spread green icing over cooled cookies. Cut into 48 squares. Pour white icing into a resealable plastic bag. Cut off corner tip. Drizzle white icing over cookies.
Info | Soft Sugar Cookie Recipes With Cream Cheese
prep:
25 mins
cook:
20 mins
additional:
10 mins
total:
55 mins
Servings:
48
Yield:
48 cookie bars
