Cream Cheese Cookie Wands
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- Number of Servings: 20
Ingredients
1 ¼ cups white whole wheat flour¼ cup white cornmeal (or yellow if you can’t find white)pinch salt4 oz vegan cream cheese4 oz shortening, softened½ cup vanilla sugarwaterSanding sugarChocolate, for decorating “handles” (optional)
Combine flour, cornmeal, and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
Beat the butter, sugar, and cream cheese together. Stir flour mixture in a little at a time.
Wrap in plastic and refrigerate overnight (or freeze up to 6 months).
Heat oven to 350 F.
Divide dough in quarters.
Working with one quarter at a time, roll into a rectangle about 5” long and ¼” thick.
Cut into strips about ½” wide. Carefully transfer to a parchment lined baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough.
Brush tops of cookies with water and generously sprinkle with sanding sugar. (if you don’t want to decorate with chocolate later, use brown or black “jimmies” for the handles at this point)
Bake 15 minutes.
Cool completely before decorating the “handles” with chocolate”.
Let set and enjoy!
Serving Size: Makes 20
Number of Servings: 20
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user JO_JO_BA.
Beat the butter, sugar, and cream cheese together. Stir flour mixture in a little at a time.
Wrap in plastic and refrigerate overnight (or freeze up to 6 months).
Heat oven to 350 F.
Divide dough in quarters.
Working with one quarter at a time, roll into a rectangle about 5” long and ¼” thick.
Cut into strips about ½” wide. Carefully transfer to a parchment lined baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough.
Brush tops of cookies with water and generously sprinkle with sanding sugar. (if you don’t want to decorate with chocolate later, use brown or black “jimmies” for the handles at this point)
Bake 15 minutes.
Cool completely before decorating the “handles” with chocolate”.
Let set and enjoy!
Serving Size: Makes 20
Number of Servings: 20
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user JO_JO_BA.
Nutritional Info Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 117.9
- Total Fat: 6.6 g
- Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
- Sodium: 23.9 mg
- Total Carbs: 13.4 g
- Dietary Fiber: 1.1 g
- Protein: 1.7 g
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