This cookie is very satisfying, and a little different from the regular sugar cookie. These can be decorated too, and made to look festive. Or just leave them plain, the vanilla sugar sprinkled over these is pretty enough. Enjoy!
Ingredients:
In a small bowl put your dry ingredients:
1.5C all purpose flour
1T cream of tartar
.5t baking soda
.25t salt
In a larger mixing bowl cream:
1 stick softened butter
.75C sugar
1T milk
1T vanilla extract
put the dry in, and mix until fully combined. Wrap in plastic. Chill in the freezer for 20 minutes.
Cream cheese filling:
8oz room temp cream cheese
1t lemon juice
2T vanilla sugar
1T vanilla extract
Vanilla sugar:
In a coffee grinder put:
1C superfine sugar
.25 vanilla bean sliced in half, with a sharp knife slide out the inside of the bean. Put the insides and the shell in the coffee grinder.
On a well floured surface roll out the dough to 1/8". These cookies are not meant to be thick, they are thin and crisp.
Cut out with any cutter, and place on a baking sheet with parchment paper. Continue until all the dough has been used.
With a teaspoon, sprinkle the cookies evenly with vanilla sugar. Bake for 10 minutes at 350F.
They should be lightly golden. Cool.
Make the cream cheese filling, and put it in a piping bag with a tip of your choice. Pipe close to the edge, the cookies are crisp, and will snap if they are pressed down too much. Decorate as desired.
Fill them close before they are served to keep them crisp, they can be refrigerated, this will soften them a little, but they will still be delicious and more 'sandwich' like.
You can see every speck of deliciousness.
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