Happy Halloween Everyone!!! 🙂 My 3 year old nephew Ethan and I decided to make some sugar cookies in the honor of Halloween! We used cookie cutters in the shape of a ghost, pumpkin and scary cat! It was lots of fun having him get his hands messy! I obtained this recipe from Weight Watchers. This is probably the best tasting sugar cookies I have ever made!
INGREDIENTS:
2-1/4 Cup All Purpose Flour
1 Cup Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 cup unsalted butter room temp
4 oz. Neufchatel Cheese or 1/3 Fat Cream Cheese Room temp
3/4 Cup Sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup fat free milk
1 tsp flour for rolling out dough
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 1/3 of flour mixture and 1/3 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 1/3 of dough and, using a rolling pin, roll out dough to 1/8-inch thickness. Using a 3-inch circular cookie cutter or any shape you like, cut cookies out of dough and place on ungreased baking sheets. Roll up dough scraps and add back to dough ball. Pull off another 1/3 of dough and repeat process until all dough is used — recipe will make approximately 45 cookies depending on what shape and size of cookie cutter you use.
Bake until edges just start to turn golden, about 10 to 12 minutes. Remove cookies to wire racks and cool completely.
NOTE:
Make these cookies any shape you want. You can sprinkle them with colored sugar or make colored icing and paint on your own designs . To ice the cookies, while they are cooling, combine 1/2 cup of powdered sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract and 1 to 3 teaspoons of hot water in a small bowl. Divide icing in half and add drops of different food coloring to each half; paint designs on cookies using small painting or basting brushes.
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Amount Per Serving
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| Calories | 98.1 | |
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| Total Fat | 3.0 g | |
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| Saturated Fat | 1.2 g | |
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| Polyunsaturated Fat | 0.4 g | |
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| Monounsaturated Fat | 1.1 g | |
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| Cholesterol | 13.6 mg | |
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| Sodium | 67.2 mg | |
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| Potassium | 18.9 mg | |
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| Total Carbohydrate | 14.8 g | |
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| Dietary Fiber | 1.0 g | |
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| Sugars | 4.4 g | |
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| Protein | 2.4 g | |
