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Eggless Cream Cheese Stained-glass Sugar Cookie

Revathi Palani
Eggless Cream Cheese Stained-glass Sugar Cookie is the perfect cookie for the holidays. It is both easy to make as well as fun to eat later on.
4 from 1 vote
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Course Cookie
Cuisine American
Servings 40

Ingredients
  

  • 1 pack Cream Cheese (softened, at room temperature)
  • ¾ Cup Butter (softened, at room temperature)
  • 1 Cup Sugar
  • 2 tsp Vanilla extract
  • 2 ¼ Cups All purpose flour
  • ½ tsp Baking soda
  • Hard Candy - as needed (I used Jolly Ranchers Hard Candy)

Instructions
 

  • First, add the cream cheese, butter, sugar and vanilla into a large mixing bowl. Using a hand mixer / whisk, beat well until mixed and fluffy.


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  • Now, add the all purpose flour and baking soda to the mixture. Mix until it forms a dough. Do not over mix.


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  • Transfer the dough onto a plastic wrap. Cover the dough completely with the wrap, shape it into a rough ball. Refrigerate the dough for atleast 1 hr.


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  • While the dough is cooling, take the hard candies in a zip lock bag. Gently crush them with a hammer.


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  • Preheat the oven to 350 F. Then, pull out the dough from the refrigerator and place it onto a floured surface. Roll the dough into about ¼ inch thick sheet. You can also cut the dough into manageable sized balls and then roll one at a time.


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  • Using a large and a small cookie cutter, you can cut out the desired shapes.


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  • Transfer the cookies to a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Fill the holes of the cookies with the crushed candy. Bake the cookies for 8 - 10 mins, until the are slightly golden on the edge. Pull out the cookies from the oven and leave them to cool on the baking sheet for 10 mins. Then transfer them to a cooling rack and cool completely.


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  • Store in an airtight container and enjoy.


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Notes | FAQ

- The dough should be cold enough so that it will be easy for rolling and cutting.
- While rolling the dough in batches, you can leave the remaining dough in the refrigerator.
- The cookies will look under cooked immediately after pulling out of the oven. They will solidify after cooling.
- Using hard candy is purely optional. It will give a festive look, but it is OK to skip.
- If you do not have cookie cutters, you can then roll the dough into small balls and place on the baking sheet. Slightly flatten them using the flat surface of a glass and then bake them.