I think this is one of the best.

Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup white sugar

1 cup butter or margarine

1 (3 oz) pkg cream cheese softened

1/2 teas. salt

1/2 teas. almond extract

1 egg yolk'2 1/4 cups all purpose flour

Directions:

In a large bowl combine the sugar, butter, cream cheese, salt, almond and vanilla extracts, and egg yolk. Beat until smooth. Stir in flour until well blended. Chill the dough for 8 hours. (we seldom wait that long.)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a 1/8 inch thickness. Cut desired shapes with lightly floured cookie cutter. Place 1 inch apart.

Bake for 7-10 mins. Cool completely before frosting.

SUGAR COOKIE GLAZE

Ingredients:

1 cup confectioners sugar

1 tabl. light corn syrup

2 tabl. water

10 drops food coloring. ( I always use Wiltons paste) coloring.

Directions.

Stir confectioners sugar, corn syrup and water together. Stir in food coloring if desired

This glaze must be stirred each time ou use it. If it is not stirred before each use it will dry with a mottled look instead of a solid color.

It drys to a real smooth glaze.

We made snowflake shaped cookies this weekend. frosted them white and put blue sugar on them and a mix of blue white and purple sprinkles on some of the others

My daughter Carri took three dozen of them to work for a cookie exchange..she got 5 requests for the recipe. They are tried and true and we love them.

The cookies are soft and chewy.

MERRY CHRISTMAS Garden Junk

patti