Cream Cheese Heart-Shaped Glazed Cookies

February 05, 2014

I am at it again, attempting to perfect royal icing cookies. This time I tried a new recipe that has cream cheese in it and it is much tastier than the original recipe I was using in my first few attempts. I also found a great tutorial on How to Marble Royal Icing by Sweetopia. I used my normal cookie recipe here and made about 18, 3 inch cookies from one batch. I used a wooden skewer to drag through the icing.

¾ c butter, softened
1 c white sugar
2 eggs
½ t vanilla extract
2 ½ c all-purpose flour
1 t baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
2 OZ cream cheese
2 T corn syrup
1 T vanilla bean or vanilla extract
1/4 C milk
Gel food coloring

Cream the cream cheese, corn syrup and vanilla together. Slowly add 4 1/2 cups powdered sugar, or a little more, until it is the right consistency (this should be a little bit thicker than pancake batter to...
See the full directions on my site

Nutritions

Calories
431

Sodium
136mg
5% DV

Fat
23g
36% DV

Protein
6g
13% DV

Carbs
44g
14% DV

Fiber
2g
8% DV

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