Recipe Summary
Who wouldn't love a sugar cookie for 3 points!
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- ¼ cup salted butter
- ¼ cup Neufchâtel cheese
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup fat-free milk
- 1 tsp all-purpose flour,
- fo r rolling o ut dough
- ⅓ cup colored sugar (for decorating)
Cooking Directions
Preheat oven to 350ºF. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking
powder, baking soda, and nutmeg; set aside.
Place butter and cheese in a large bowl; cream using an electric mixer.
Add sugar and beat until batter is pale yellow; beat in vanilla extract
and egg.
Add about ⅓ of flour mixture and ⅓ of milk to cheese mixture;
mix batter on low speed until just combined. Repeat 2 more times with
remaining flour mixture and milk, until thoroughly combined. Shape
dough into a ball and loosely cover with plastic wrap. Using your
palms, press down on plastic wrap to flatten dough into a hamburger
shape; refrigerate for at least 30 minutes and up to 2 days.
Sprinkle a teaspoon of flour on a flat work surface. Pull off about ⅓
of dough and, using a rolling pin, roll out dough to ⅛-inch thickness.
Using a 3-inch circular cookie cutter, cut cookies out of dough and
place on ungreased baking sheets. Roll up dough scraps and add back
to dough ball. Pull off another ⅓ of dough and repeat process until all
dough is used—recipe will make approximately 45 cookies. Sprinkle
cookies with colored sugar and bake until edges just start to turn
golden, about 10 to 12 minutes. Remove cookies to wire racks and
cool completely.
Serving Size / Serves
1 cookie
Nutritional Facts
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