Click for Cookbook LOGIN
"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity."--Voltaire

Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies Recipe

  Tried it? Rate this Recipe:
 

 

This recipe for Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies is from Family Favorites from Grandmother's Kitchen, one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. We'll help you start your own personal cookbook! It's easy and fun. Click here to start your own cookbook!
Category:
Category:
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup butter, softened
3 oz package cream cheese, softened
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 egg yolk (reserve white)
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
powdered sugar
Directions:
Directions:
Heat oven to 375º. In large bowl, combine sugar, salt, butter, cream cheese, vanilla and egg yolk. Stir in flour. chill dough for 1/2 hour.

Work with 1/3rd of dough at a time so that dough remains cold. Pinch off dough and roll into 1" balls. Brush with beaten egg white and roll into pecans, flatten and bake for 7 -10 minutes. May bake plain and roll in powdered sugar.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This recipe was from my maternal Aunt Wilma from Harrisburg, Arkansas. When we were little and we would visit for the holidays all kinds of colorful homemade cookies and candies were put out on large platters around the house for us to enjoy. (My hips are their fault!)

 

 

 

Learn more about the process to create a cookbook -- or
Start your own personal family cookbook right now!  Here's to good eating!

Search for more great recipes here from over 1,500,000 in our family cookbooks!

 

 

 

339W  

Cookbooks are great for Holiday Gifts, Wedding Gifts, Bridal Shower ideas and Family Reunions!

*Recipes and photos entered into the Family Cookbook Project are provided by the submitting contributors. All rights are retained by the contributor. Please contact us if you believe copyright violations have occurred.

Search for more great recipes here from over 1,500,000 in our family cookbooks!