Cream Cheese Cut Outs II Recipe are such good cookies. You will need a floured surface each time you roll out the dough and flour the rolling pin too. great and nice

Ingredients

1 egg

1 cup white sugar

1 '3 ounce' package cream cheese

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups all-purpose flour

Method:

In a large bowl, cream together the butter, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy.

Beat in the egg and vanilla. Combine the flour and baking powder; stir into the creamed mixture.

Divide dough into two pieces, cover and chill until firm, about 1 hour.

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F '190 degrees C'.

On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8 inch thickness.

Cut in to desired shapes using cookie cutters and place the cookies at least 1 inch apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.

Bake for 7 to 9 minutes in the preheated oven, until bottoms are lightly browned and cookies are firm.

Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.