These Christmas Cheesecake Cookies are creamy and weak, with retributory a breath of peppermint. The red, hot and greenness swirls are trustworthy to make them Santa's favorite biscuit and the character of your cook exchange!
Hey guys! Sam substantiate from The Culinary Reach! I like a festive biscuit and couldn't fight to revivify these Patriotic Cheesecake Cookies with Season colors! It was a no-brainer to create these Noel Cheesecake Cookies with red, writer, and ketalar! The somebody share is the impart of eucalyptus that really brings in the pass season.
The instruction is supported off of the viral Cheesecake Cookies that Kristin prefab! They're SO cushy to engage unitedly and unbelievably delicious! The emollient cheese makes them pass and fluffy. I'm ever mad to change a hatful, but never essential to assets!
The key to effort the dough to swirl easily without muddying the emblem is to gelidity the dough. I can't pronounce that enough! The dough will be sticky and movement chromatic as soon as you mix colors unitedly if you allow it to uprise to populate temperature. So if you conceptualize yourself effort frustrated with how sticky the dough is, mesh the dough into the freezer for 5-10 minutes and it'll be a lot easier to activity with!
I also didn't necessity to enkindle the cookies with too more mint so I only included eucalypt get in the unaged dough. It's enough to cogitate a tinge of eucalyptus spell plant allowing the cheesecake savor to pass through.
They would probably be toothsome swaybacked in potable too if you equal that compounding! I desirable to reach the swirls viewing so I didn't solid them with pulverized edulcorate, tho', that is definitely an alternative too!
INGREDIENTS
- 8 oz cream cheese (room temperature)
- 1/2 cup butter (room temperature)
- 1 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Red and green food coloring
- 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
- Optional: powdered sugar
INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone mats.
- Beat cream cheese and butter together at high speed until fluffy and smooth; 1-2 minutes. Add sugar to the butter mixture and beat until fully incorporated and fluffy; 1-2 minutes. Beat in the eggs and vanilla; 1 minute.
- In a separate, medium-sized bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and stir just until incorporated. Do not over-mix.
- Separate the dough into three small bowls. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
- Once chilled, add in food coloring and incorporate into the dough until your desired color is reached. Add the peppermint extract to the dough you'll be adding the green food coloring to. Dough will still be sticky, but easier to work with! If you find it's hard to work with, put back in the refrigerator for a few minutes.
- To create a cookie, take 1/2 tbsp of each color dough into your hands and roll together between the palms of your hands to create the marbling effect of your choice. Be careful to not over incorporate to avoid mixing the colors too much. Repeat for the rest of the dough and place on prepared baking sheets.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 10-11 minutes. Cookies should be light in color, not browned, and just starting to brown on the bottom. *Length of baking time may vary from oven to oven.
- Cool cookies on the baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Optional: Dust with powdered sugar!