Cream Cheese Butter Pecan Cookies Recipes

CREAM CHEESE COOKIES I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease cookie sheets.
• In a large bowl, cream together butter, cream cheese, and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla. Stir in flour until well blended. Drop dough by spoonfuls or use a cookie press to place onto prepared cookie sheets. If using floral cookie press design, make an indentation in the center with a thimble, fill with preserves, or press candy into center.
• Bake for 15 minutes in preheated oven. Cookies should be pale.

CREAM CHEESE FINGER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. In a small bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy, 3-4 minutes. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour, sugar and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Stir in pecans (dough will be crumbly)., Shape tablespoonfuls into 2-in. logs. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake until lightly browned, 12-14 minutes. Carefully roll warm cookies in confectioners' sugar. Cool on wire racks.

BUTTER PECAN CREAM CHEESE COOKIES (CAKE MIX)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Cream butter and cream cheese together.
• Blend in egg and maple flavoring.
• Add dry cake mix 1/3 at a time, mix well after each addition.
• Chill for 30 minutes.
• Drop by spoonful on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes or until just lightly browned.

CREAM CHEESE BUTTER PECAN COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, use a mixer to cream the brown sugar, butter, cream cheese, rum extract vanilla extract and egg yolk.
• Using a large spatula or spoon, Stir the pecan and toffee pieces into your mixture.
• Using your spoon or spatula, fold your flour and salt into the mixture, a little bit at a time. Thoroughly blend in each addition, before adding more.
• Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour. (I let mine sit overnight).
• Preheat your oven (use convection bake if you have it) to 375 degrees F.
• Use light colored baking sheets and lightly grease them. Use a teaspoon to dig out your dough, using more if you like larger cookies, and roll into a ball. Slightly flatten each ball with your palms.
• Bake for 8 minutes, or until light golden brown. (The cookies will cook a bit more once they are out of the oven.).
• Let your cookies cool ON THE BAKING SHEET before moving them to your racks. My rule of thumb was when I could pick up the baking sheet and it may have been slightly warm, but I definitely didn't need to worry about oven mitts. This includes the bottom center of the sheet.
• Storage: To keep your cookies soft, place a piece of bread in the bottom of an airtight container and pile the cookies on top.

CREAM CHEESE BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Sift together already sifted flour with salt and cinnamon and set aside.
• Cream butter and cream cheese together.
• Gradually add sugar and mix well. Then, beat in egg yolk, vanilla and orange rind.
• Next, slowly blend in flour, salt and cinnamon mixture.
• Using any type of cookie cutter or cookie press, form cookies on ungreased cookie sheet 1" apart.
• Bake 12-15 minutes. Let cool-eat-enjoy.