Italian cream cheese cookies
Description
It goes perfectly with tea and coffee. For the cream cheese, use plain curd cheese without additives. You can add nuts or sesame seeds to the cookie dough. While making it, you can enlist children as helpers—they will enjoy rolling balls of dough.
Instructions
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Step 1
To make the cookies, prepare the necessary ingredients. Sift the flour through a sieve to aerate it.
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Step 2
The butter should be soft. To help it warm up faster after taking it out of the fridge, cut it into small pieces.
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Step 3
Mix soft butter with sugar.
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Step 4
Then add the egg and cream cheese to the bowl. Mix. You can use a mixer to make the mixture smooth and uniform.
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Step 5
Gradually add the flour with baking soda and mix it into the dough.
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Step 6
The finished dough should be quite thick. Adjust the amount of flour according to the dough’s consistency. Cover the finished dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
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Step 7
Then line a baking sheet with parchment paper. With wet hands, roll the dough into small balls, flatten them slightly, and place them on the baking sheet. Bake the cookies in an oven preheated to 180°C for about 15–20 minutes.
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Step 8
The cookies have grown slightly in size and started to brown. Remove the baking sheet from the oven and let the cookies cool.
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Step 9
Your delicious Italian cream cheese cookies are ready!
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Step 10
Remove from the oven and serve warm or cooled.