One of the few cookies that we're committed to each year at Christmas is the cream cheese cookie. This is Jim's favorite and SUPER easy to make.
All I did to make this a GF recipe was to substitute a GF cake mix for the regular cake mix. Ta-da!
The cookie ingredients:
1/2 stick butter, softened
1 pkg (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
1 egg yolk
1/4 t. vanilla extract
1 box yellow cake mix
The icing ingredients:
Powdered sugar
Ice water
The process:
1. Cream together butter and cream cheese
2. Add egg yolk and vanilla, mix well
3. Add cake mix, about 1/3 of the mix at a time to help with mixing
4. Chill for 1 hour or so
5. Bake 10-12 minutes at 375
6. Cool and ice
Tips:
If you don't have a heavy duty mixer, you'll end up struggling to mix by hand - it's a dense dough. I often lay the dough and last of the cake mix in a big sheet of plastic wrap and knead the final bit of mix in by hand instead of trying to stir.
Keep the icing a little thick. You want it to be thick enough to stay on top of the cookie, but thin enough to drizzle a little bit. Play with it if you're unfamiliar: if it all drips/runs off the cookie right away, it's too thin.
You shouldn't be able to see through it after it settles/hardens. Add sugar or sprinkles if you like.
Cookies will fluff a little as they bake, but won't really change shape. You'll pretty much get out of the oven what you put in. I did notice that the GF batch was a little spikier...
...while the regular batch was a little smoother in appearance.
Happy baking!
YUMMY!! I want some! I have to go buy some ingredients. I've never made Christmas cookies or treats. I think it's time to start. Thanks for that awesome award! You're amazing too!
ReplyDeleteJoy - the recipe was Sharon's, so I bet Patrick will LOVE it if you make him some. Jim says it's one of his favorites from being a kid, so I think he's probably had them before.
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining in again this week. The cookies look yummy.
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