Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies Recipe – Heart Sandwich Cookies
I think I just found my new favorite sugar cookie recipe, cream cheese sugar cookies!! I know I’ve said that before with this sugar cookie recipe, but no yall seriously, I think this one has my heart. So what better thing to do with this cream cheese sugar cookies recipe than to make these little cute heart sandwich cookies.
These cookies remind me of those conversation hearts candy and you can easily turn them into conversation heart cookies by using icing or food coloring stamps to write cute messages. Growing up I never liked conversation hearts candy. I felt like I was eating chalk or antacid pills, but they always looked so pretty with the pastel colors that I ate them anyway : )
These cream cheese sugar cookie heart sandwiches are little, cute, light and I could seriously eat the whole batch of these things. So yeah, I’d label them as dangerous.
Cream cheese really makes for a chewy, flavorful cookie and that almond extract adds a unique flavor that sets them apart from your average sugar cookie. Make them. You’ll love them!
Watch me make these cream cheese sugar cookies (heart sandwich cookies) from start to finish!!
Get the Recipe: Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies Recipe - Conversation Hearts Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup real butter, softened (1 stick)
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- Food coloring, red, blue, purple, green, yellow
- White frosting or marshmallow fluff
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream together sugar, cream cheese & butter.
- Beat in the eggs.
- Add vanilla extract and almond extract.
- Combine the dry ingredients with wet ingredients.
- Divide into 5 even-sized balls
- Place dough balls into a bowl.
- Add food coloring of choice to each ball of dough, using a spoon to distribute the color.
- Wrap the dough if saran wrap. Flatten.
- Refrigerate for 2-4 hours.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Sprinkle powdered sugar on a flat surface and carefully roll out the dough until it is about 1/4 inch thick.
- Cut out 2-inch size heart shapes with a cookie cutter.
- Place on a nonstick baking sheets
- Bake for 4-5 minutes. Baking times may vary based on your oven.
- Remove from oven and place cookies on a cooling rack. They will continue to cook as they cool so do not over bake.
- When cooled spread a layer of frosting or marshmallow fluff in the center of a cookie and top with another cookie.
- Store in an airtight container.
Notes
I prefer to use liquid food coloring to color the dough than the gel food coloring. It's easier.
Be sure that the cookie dough is thoroughly chilled before rolling. This prevents spreading of the cookies.
Want a different flavor? Try different extracts like mint (ooooh la la), orange, coconut or butter! Yum!
Do not overbake! You want to take them out of the oven when they are a tad undercooked. They will finish cooking a little when they come out of the oven. This will result in a chewy, yet firm sugar cookie.
Tried these wonderful cookies and they were wonderful! I am now impressed with myself that I can bake! Followed recipe to the letter and they came out soft and chewy.
Keep on doing what ya doing!!!
Hi Monique! I LOVE your blog and I´m planning to do this recipe to my friends on Valentine´s Day 😀 But I´m worried… do I really need the almond extract? I can´t find it anywhere, I just got vanilla extract. Can I replaced with anything else? D: Thank you!
How many cookies does this recipe yield?
First, I rarely have the time or patience to watch videos BUT yours rocked! Secondly, I NEVER comment on recipes I try (whether I like them or not) BUT I could not stop myself this time! This is an awesome recipe and I don’t know if it was the powdered sugar used for rolling out the dough or the cream cheese in the recipe that makes it such a great cookie, BUT whatever the secret, IT WORKS! Thank you very much!
Those valentine cookies are sooo cute! I will plan to make this on Valentines Day.
Hi Monique,
i luv this cookies and wanted to try it… before that i just wanna ask if how sweet it is… coz i dnt have a real sweet tooth so i always do reduce the sugar content…
thanks for sharing! 😀
-Ayen-