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If you love the taste of sugar cookies, but don’t want spend the entire afternoon flouring your counter top, rolling out the dough, cutting out the dough, baking the dough, decorating the cookies…
then these simple Almond Butter Sugar Cookies are for you, baby.
No rolling and cutting necessary.
Top them with a heavenly cream cheese frosting and you will be in a happy place, I tell you.
You can, of course tint the frosting any color you would like. This little pink number I’ve got going on would be great for a little girls birthday party or baby shower. Color the frosting orange for Halloween or perhaps red and green for Christmas goodies.
I baked up a batch, left the frosting white and decorated them with candy to make some cute Christmas themed cookies. You can find that post here.
Alrighty, let’s make some cookies.
COOKIES
1. Cream your butter and sugar together for at least 2 minutes.
2. Add your eggs, vanilla, almond extract and butter flavoring.
Beat the mixture for another 2 minutes or until everything is nice and fluffy.
3. In a separate bowl combine the flour, baking powder
baking soda
and salt. Stir it around to combine.
4. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and mix until combined.
5. Roll into 1 1/2 inch balls and place on a cookie sheet that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
6. Bake at 350 for about 7 minutes of until the tops of the cookies start to crack. Take them out of the oven and let them continue to cook on the hot sheet for several minutes.
7. Remove the cookies and place them on a wire rack to cool completely.
CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
1. Place the cream cheese and butter in your stand mixer, or large mixing bowl.
2. Beat it until the two are well combined and nice and smooth.
3. Add the powdered sugar, milk, vanilla and dash of salt. Beat well. Add a bit more powdered sugar if it’s too thin, and more milk if it’s too thick.
4. Add a few drops of food coloring and mix it in.
5. Pipe the frosting on to your cooled cookies and top with sprinkle.
Enjoy!
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Ingredients
- Cookies:
- 1 C butter, softened
- 1 1/2 C sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 t vanilla
- 1 t almond extract
- 1 t butter flavoring
- 3 C flour
- 2 t baking powder
- 1 t baking soda
- 1/2 t salt
- Frosting:
- 1 8 oz package cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 C butter, softened
- 1 t vanilla
- dash salt
- 3-4 C powdered sugar
- 2-3 T milk
Instructions
1. Cream your butter and sugar together for at least 2 minutes.
2. Add your eggs, vanilla, almond extract and butter flavoring. Beat the mixture for another 2 minutes or until everything is nice and fluffy.
3. In a separate bowl combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir it around to combine.
4. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and mix until combined.
5. Roll into 1 1/2 inch balls and place on a cookie sheet that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
5. Roll into 1 1/2 inch balls and place on a cookie sheet that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
6. Bake at 350 for about 7 minutes of until the tops of the cookies start to crack. Take them out of the oven and let them continue to cook on the hot sheet for several minutes.
7. Remove the cookies and place them on a wire rack to cool completely.
7. Remove the cookies and place them on a wire rack to cool completely.
CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
1. Place the cream cheese and butter in your stand mixer, or large mixing bowl.
2. Beat it until the two are well combined and nice and smooth.
3. Add the powdered sugar, milk, vanilla and dash of salt. Beat well. Add a bit more powdered sugar if it's too thin, and more milk if it's too thick.
4. Add a few drops of food coloring and mix it in.
5. Pipe the frosting on to your cooled cookies and top with sprinkle.
Enjoy!
Recipe from Jamie Cooks It Up!
Do these need to be stored in the fridge since there is cream cheese in the icing?
Wat happens if you can’t find almond extract? Can I just use more vanilla?
Sewperfect,
The almond extract gives it another layer of flavor, look for it in the spice section of your grocery store. If you can’t find it…:) give it a try with just the vanilla. Good luck! Hope they turn out great for you!
~Jamie
These are AWESOME!! I made them for a last minute dessert yesterday and I am addicted. I have decided to forgo the cut out sugar cookies this year and make these instead. They are moist, soft, yummy and the frosting is great too. I did not have butter flavor so I upped the almond and vanilla but I think I could have just skipped it altogether. Thanks for the great recipe – I am definitely sharing it.
Can I substitute a maple flavoring for the almond? would that go good with the vanilla?
Hello! These cookies are so yummy! The icing was yummy too, but it turned out more like a glaze?? I didn’t end up using it for the cookies and used buttercream instead. What did I do wrong? I would love to figure out the icing because I love the cream cheese taste.
Merry Christmas!
just made them today and they where yummy indeed, thank you.
What type of flour it has to be?? All-purpose flour? Thank you! They look yummy! Can’t wait to try them!
Lilibeth,
All purpose flour will work perfectly for you. Hope you love them.
~Jamie