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Summer Garden Party Suger Cookies
 
These delicious looking cookies are so elegant and tasty they look like they came from an expensive bakery - only you will know how super simple they are to make!  Whip them up anytime you need a little taste of summer.
 
 

Seasonal Recipes

 

Ingredients:
  •  2 1-lbs packages refrigerated sugar cookie dough
  • 1 8-oz package cream cheese, room temperature
  • 5 tablespoons sugar
  •  2 tablespoons whipping cream (could substitute Half and Half)
  •  Fresh Strawberries, sliced
  •  Blueberries
  •  Blackberries
 
 
 
Prep Intructions:
 
1   Bake sugar cookies according to package directions.

2   In a small bowl, mix the softned cream cheese, sugar and whipping cream with an electric hand mixer until well blended. The mixture should be the consitancy of frosting. If it is too thick to spread like frosting you can add a little more whipping cream and blend again.

After the cookies have been allowed to cool, spread a generous layer of cream cheese frosting on top of each cookie then layer on 1-2 slices of strawberries, a couple of blueberries and a blackberry.

4  Serve and enjoy!

 
 
 
 
 
 Cooking Tips:

 A few notes about this cookie, because of the cut strawberries the cookies do not store well. So plan on eating them or setting them out on your buffet table the same morning or afternoon that you make them. If you need to make things ahead of time, I recommend baking the cookies and making the icing in advance (storing the icing in the refrigerator until you are ready to use it) but waiting to slice the strawberries and assemble the cookies with cream cheese icing and fruit right before you are ready to set them out for people to eat. Of course, if you have a little extra time or are feeling particularly gourmet you can always step it up a notch and make the sugar cookies from scratch. My favorite scratch sugar cookie recipe is the Classic Sugar Cookies in the Chocolate-Packed, Jam-Filled, Butter-Rich, No-Holds-Barred Cookie Book by Judy Rosenberg, but you could use whatever one you like.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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