Cream Cheese Frosting

From Superwoman Spirit

Shannon's Cream Cheese Frosting

12 ounces Cream Cheese softened

1 cup Unsalted Butter softened

*Whip together then add

4 cups Powdered Sugar

*Mix well then add

1 teas. Vanilla Extract

*Mix well then add

2 cups Powdered Sugar

*Mix well then add

3 Tablespoons Whole Milk

*Mix well then add

2 cups Powdered Sugar

Whip until very creamy

You can add up to 1 more cup of powdered sugar if needed and a little more milk.  

You will have to decide the consistency you like. 

The steps in this recipe are why the frosting turns out so well.  It is important to follow exactly to get the same results.  You can color it with anything or flavor it with extracts.  

Same with the cookies just add 1 1/2 teas. of flavor extract. 

Shellie's Sugar Cookies

1 1/3 c. butter 

1 tsp. vanilla

2 tbsp. + 2 tsp. milk

4 c. flour

1/2 tsp. salt

1 1/2 c. sugar

2 eggs

1 tbsp. baking powder

Cream together butter, sugar, vanilla. Add eggs beat until light and fluffy. Add milk and stir in dry ingredients. Divide in half and wrap in wax paper. Chill dough 1 hour (or overnight). Roll to 1/2" - cut into shapes. Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes on lightly greased sheets. Cool 1 minute before removing from pan.

No-Bake Cookies

2 C sugar
1 1/2 T cocoa
1/2 C butter
1/2 C milk


Boil together 1 minute. 
Remove from heat, add:


3/4 C peanut butter
3 C oatmeal
1 t. Vanilla



Stir together well and scoop onto cookie sheets.

Shellie's Chocolate Chip Cookies

3 cups flour

1 1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1 1/2 (3 sticks) butter, softened

1 cup sugar

1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed

2 egg

2 tsp. vanilla

1 1/2 pkg. milk chocolate chips (you can use semi-sweet if you like, but I like milk choc.)

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Mix flour, baking soda, and salt in medium bowl, set aside. Beat butter and sugars in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla, beat well. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop onto cookie sheets. Bake 10-13 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on cookie sheets 1 minute.

Sugar Cookies Done Right!

From The Girl Who Ate Everything

{This is THE BEST sugar cookie recipe I have found!  I even frosted them with store-bought cream cheese frosting and they were still DELICIOUS!  They were even delicious sans frosting!  Now that's saying something!}

1 cup sour cream
2 cups white sugar
1 cup butter
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla or almond extract
6 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 350.

Combine sour cream, sugar, butter, eggs, and vanilla. Beat for a 2-3 minutes.

Add dry ingredients and mix well. Let the dough chill in fridge for 25 minutes or until firm.

Roll it out to about 1/4 inch thick and use cookie cutters to make shapes or circles. You may have to add a little flour to roll them out so the dough is workable but remember the less flour you use the softer your cookie will be.

Bake until LIGHT golden brown-no more than 10 minutes. When you take them out they will seem underdone but they aren't. Let them cool on the pan and they will be perfect and moist. It you like them harder and more crunchy just bake them a little longer. 

Makes around 4 dozen.

Summer's Chocolate Chip Cookies

3 sticks butter
2 cups brown sugar
1 1/2 cups white sugar
3 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla
6 cups flour
1 1/2 tbsp baking soda
1 tbsp salt
4 cups chocolate chips

Beat sugars and butter.  Add eggs and vanilla and mix.  Add dry ingredients.

Bake at 350 degrees for 11-13 minutes.

Cat's Sugar Cookies

1 1/2 cup sugar
1 cup butter
1 8-oz pkg cream cheese
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp almond extract
3 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder

Mix cream cheese, sugar, and butter.  Add egg and flavoring.  Beat until smooth.  Stir together flour and baking powder in a separate bowl.  Add to cream mixture.  Chill dough.  Roll out on surface dusted with 1/2 powder sugar, 1/2 flour.  Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.  Do not over bake; if golden brown, they are too done!  (or skip the mess and just roll into balls with hands and then flatten them into circles and lay them on the cookie sheet.)

Frosting:
2 cups powdered sugar
2 Tbs softened butter
1/4 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp almond extract
1 egg white
1/4 cup milk or cream

Combine egg white and milk, set aside.  Beat together powdered sugar, butter, and flavorings.  Add small amounts of milk mixture until icing reaches spreading consistency.  The egg white makes the frosting shiny and pretty.

Chocolate Kiss Cookies

From BrookeO

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup peanut butter

Cream then add:
1 egg
2 Tbs milk
1 tsp vanilla

Sift together then add:
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp soda

Roll into balls and roll in sugar.
Bake at 375 degrees for 8 min. Wait 2 minutes then cool on wire racks.  Immediately after removing from tray, put a hershey kiss in the middle of each cookie.

Special K Squares

From "Favorites" Cookbook

1 cup sugar
1 cup white corn syrup
1 1/2 cups peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla
pinch of salt
6 cups Special K cereal
1 (11-oz) package chocolate or butterscotch chips

In small saucepan, mix together sugar and corn syrup, bring to a boil.  Remove from heat and add peanut butter, vanilla, and salt.  Measure cereal in large bowl.  Pour hot mixture over Special K and combine.  Press in 9"x13" ungreased dish.  Melt chips in double boiler or in microwave, stirring frequently.  Spread cookies with melted chips.  Cool and cut into squares.

Squirrel Bars

From "Favorites" Cookbook

1/2 cup peanut butter
1/3 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
6 ounces chocolate chips

Mix together first four ingredients.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Stir in flour and baking powder.  Spread mixture in a greased 9"x13" pan.  Sprinkle chips on top.  Bake 3 minutes at 350 degrees.  Take out and "marbelize."  Return to oven for another 18 to 20 minutes.  Cook and cut into bars to serve.

Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting

From "Favorites" Cookbook

4 eggs
1 2/3 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1 (16-oz) can pumpkin
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp cloves

Beat eggs, sugar, oil, and pumpkin till light and fluffy.  Stir together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, soda, and spices.  Add to pumpkin mixture.  Spread in greased 15"x10" pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.  Cool.

Cream Cheese Frosting:
2 (3-oz) packages cream cheese
1 cup butter
2 tsp vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar

Cream together cream cheese, butter, and vanilla.  Gradually add powdered sugar and mix until smooth and creamy.

Rolo Cookies

From "Favorites" Cookbook

2 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
48 Rolos
2 tbsp sugar

Combine flour, cocoa and soda and set aside.  Beat sugars and butter until well blended; add eggs and vanilla.  Add dry mixture and blend well.  Shape cookies into small balls.  Press Rolo into center of ball and cover with dough.  Roll cookie in sugar.  Bake on ungreased cookie sheets at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes, until tops of cookies are slightly cracked.  Cool on racks.

Homemade Oreo Cookies

2 boxes devil's food cake mix

4 eggs

1 1/2 C shortening

1 t. vanilla

Preheat oven to 350. in large bowl combine cake mixes, eggs, shortening, & vanilla; mix by hand {dough will be very stiff.} form dough into balls about the size of marbles. place 1 1/2" apart. bake for 9 minutes on a greased sheet. let cool for 2 minutes. then remove from pans.

cream filling

1{8oz} pkg cream cheese

1/4 C. butter

1lb. powdered sugar

1 t. vanilla

combine cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, & vanilla together; cream until smooth. match two same-size cookies; place a generous amount of icing in center of one, & top with the other, pressing together gently. makes about 40 sandwich cookies.