Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

For cookies

•          1 cup butter, softened
•          1 package cream cheese, softened
•          1 cup sugar
•          1 egg yolk
•         ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
•          ¼ tsp almond extract
•          2 ¼ cup all-purpose flour
•          ½ tsp salt
•          ¼ tsp baking powder
•          Tinted frosting or colored sugar

For glaze

•          1 ½ cups confectioner’s sugar
•          1/8 tsp salt
•          2 ½ tbsp half-and-half cream
•          Cake decorating gel and sprinkles, optional.

Directions

•          In a bowl, mix butter, cream cheese and sugar. Beat in egg yolk, vanilla and almond extract. Combine the flout, salt, baking powder and gradually add to creamed mixture. Cover and refrigerate for 3 hours or until easy to handle.
•        On a lightly flour surface, roll out dough. Give desired cookies shape to dough. Place on baking sheet. Bake at 350ºF for 8-10 minutes or until edges begins brown. Cool for 2 minutes before removing from pan to wire racks.
•        Combine glaze ingredients until smooth, spoon over cookies. Decorate as desired.

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