Best Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies Ever!

So I found the best cookie recipe the other day. I always like decorating cookies for christmas, and I've found that I never like eating them.  This year I searched for a "good" recipie, that would both be fun to decorate and eat........so below is the recipie that I made, and they are amazing. I stood in front of the oven and watched them cook till they were perfectly browned, (took about 7 to 8 minutes). I only own heart cookie cutters, so thats why they are all hearts, so I went with a candy cane theme, but they still look like valentines day cookies......but they arent! I thought I would share my recipie with you!

The BEST Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies!

1 cup white sugar
1 cup butter, softened (2 sticks)
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg yolk
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1. In a large bowl, combine the sugar, butter, cream cheese, salt, and vanilla extracts, and egg yolk. Beat until smooth. Stir in flour until well blended. Chill the dough for 8 hours, or overnight.

2. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F

3. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough  to  about 1/8 inch thickness, (dough will probably be really sticky, so you might feel like you need to use more flour, which is totally fine…..I did). Then cut into desired shapes with lightly floured cookie cutters. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet or on wax paper (preferred).

4. Bake for 7 to 10 minutes. I stood in front of the oven the whole time they were cooking, I think its very delicate dough and will burn easily. Mine were mostly cooked by 8 minutes, but it depends on the size of your cookies.  Cool cookies completely before frosting.   Make sure to store in a covered container so they don’t get stale.

Cheese Frosting –
·          4 oz soft cream cheese                 
·          1 stick of unsalted butter
·          2 cups powdered sugar
·          1 teaspoon of vanilla

In a mixing bowl cream together cream cheese and butter (I used salted butter cause that’s all I had and it tasted fine), then mix in the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, and after that’s all mixed add in the vanilla and mix till incorporated

My completed cookies! I was pretty proud!