| 1 cup Unsalted butter, softened | | 8 oz Cream cheese, softened | | 1 12 cup Sugar | | 1 x Egg | | 1 tsp Vanilla | | 3 cup Flour | | 1 tsp Baking powder |
| | Preparation Time: 20 minutes | | Chilling Time: Several hours | | Baking Time: 10 to 15 minutes | | 1. Cream butter and cream cheese in large mixer bowl. Beat in sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla . Stir in flour and baking powder . Chill several hours. | | 2. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Roll dough into small balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten with a glass that has been dipped in vanilla sugar (sugar in which you have stored a vanilla bean ) or plain sugar. | | 3. Bake 10 to 15 minutes, until the edges are lightly browned. Cool on wire racks . | | Winner Jeanette McCarthy, Downers Grove, Illinois, describes her impatient person's I'm hungry" cookies: "When I was a child |
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