Description
Irresistible cinnamon cream cheese cookies offer a perfect balance of sweet and spicy flavors. Warm, comforting notes of cinnamon blend seamlessly with rich cream cheese, creating a delightful treat you’ll crave again and again.
Ingredients
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Main Ingredients:
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
- ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
- 4 ounces (113 grams) cream cheese, softened
Binding and Flavoring Ingredients:
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste or extract
Seasoning Ingredients:
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch of kosher salt
Instructions
- Whip the butter and cream cheese in a spacious mixing bowl using an electric mixer until achieving a silky, uniform texture.
- Gradually incorporate powdered sugar into the creamy base, blending until fully integrated and smooth.
- Introduce egg, baking powder, vanilla extract, and salt to the mixture, stirring until everything is thoroughly combined.
- Gently fold in flour, ensuring complete integration and scraping down bowl sides to prevent dry pockets.
- Refrigerate the dough for approximately one hour to enhance flavor development and improve texture.
- Heat the oven to 375°F, preparing a parchment-lined baking sheet for cookie placement.
- Create a separate mixture of ground cinnamon and granulated sugar in a shallow dish for coating.
- Portion the chilled dough into small spheres, roughly the size of a walnut.
- Carefully roll each dough ball in the cinnamon-sugar mixture, ensuring complete coverage.
- Arrange coated cookies on the prepared baking sheet, maintaining adequate spacing between each.
- Bake for 8-9 minutes, watching carefully to prevent overcooking; cookies will appear slightly puffy but not golden.
- Allow cookies to rest on the baking sheet for 10 minutes to stabilize their structure.
- Transfer cookies to a wire cooling rack, permitting them to reach room temperature before serving.
Notes
- Chilling the dough helps prevent spreading and enhances the cookies’ texture, creating a more uniform and tender result.
- Coating each cookie ball generously in cinnamon sugar provides a delightful crunch and sweet-spiced exterior that contrasts beautifully with the soft, creamy interior.
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 24
- Calories: 138
- Sugar: 10 g
- Sodium: 55 mg
- Fat: 6 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 20 g
- Fiber: 0.5 g
- Protein: 1.5 g
- Cholesterol: 18 mg