Cream Cheese Grinch Cookies Recipe
This Cream Cheese Grinch Cookies Recipe is full of delicious flavor and holiday color. Cream cheese and powdered sugar create a delicious counterpoint in cookies colored green for the holidays and dressed up with a dab of red icing.
Servings 36 Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar, plus more for topping
- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour
- Green food coloring
- Red icing (I used red Pillsbury Funfetti icing)
- Red heart sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Beat together the butter and cream cheese until smooth and well combined.
- Add the egg and vanilla and beat to combine.
- Add the powdered sugar and beat until smooth.
- Add the flour and beat until combined.
- Place around 1 teaspoon of gel food coloring in the batter and beat until well mixed. Add more food coloring, if needed, until the desired shade of green is reached.
- Use a tablespoon to scoop out heaping scoops of dough. Roll the dough between your hands and place it on the lined baking sheet. Slightly press down each cookie.
- Bake the cookies for 15 to 17 minutes, until the bottom is lightly browned.
- Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for five minutes or until firm, then transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
- When the cookies are cool, lightly dust each cookie with powdered sugar. Place a small drop of red icing on the bottom of each cookie, then press a heart sprinkle into the icing to hold it in place.