Easy Cream Cheese Cookie Recipe!

I love baking.

It's fun measuring and mixing all the ingredients together, and the mouthwatering smell of baked pastry is ever so heavenly <3

But, as I started my diet about 2 months ago, I haven't baked for a looongggg time.

I was sipping some afternoon tea, and decided "Heck, I need to cater to my mental health too. I want cookies with tea".

So, I surfed around, and found the perfect, super easy, super tasty cream cheese cookie recipe!

It can be found here (beware, it's in Korean!): Original Cream Cheese Cookie Recipe

Here are the translated ingredients:

- Cake Flour 200g

- Butter 80g

- Cream Cheese 120g

- Powdered Sugar (Icing Sugar) 80g

- Egg x 1

- Milk 30ml

Tips:

• I used about 1.5 times the amount of ingredients listed above and made about 40 round cookies, 4cm in diameter. 
• As the original recipe was for "crunchy" cookies, but I wanted them to be softer, I put in extra butter (+10g), cream cheese(+10g), and egg (2 eggs), and used all-purpose flour instead.
• These cookies are not meant to be so sweet. So if you like your cookies to be sweeter, add more sugar!
• Try to make all your cookies have even thickness, for even cookin~

I was so excited to make these cookies that I forgot to take photos until after I had them on the cooking pans >___<

But they are so easy to make that pictures won't be necessary!

Step 1.

Leave butter and cream cheese out in room temperature to soften.

When soft, mix them together in a bowl till they look like yellow-ish cream!

Step 2.

Add sugar powder to the butter+cream cheese mixture.

Mix well.

Step 3.

Add egg(s) and mix well together!

Step 4.

Add sifted flour and mix mix mix~

Step 5.

Depending on your mixture from step 4, add appropriate amount of milk.

The dough shouldn't be runny, as we want to shape it onto the cooking pan.

But we don't want it too dry that the dough cracks when you try to work with it.

Think of....about the consistency of a generic cookie dough! :)

Step 6.

Preheat oven to 175 degrees celsius and bake bake bake for about 20 min!

Or until the top surface of the cookie is golden brown, as in the photos below!

The dough was too thick, so the cookies weren't cooked evenly on the inside. And because they were so thick and was chewier than a cookie, they kind of felt like scones :P

Flattened out second batch of cookies! These turned out much better! :)