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Cheesecake Cookies with Vanilla Wafers
There are many vanilla sugar cookies recipes and lots of ways to make cookies. Mexico is a big country and there are many regional differences when it comes to dessert recipes, as well as savory ones. A good example of this variety is Mexican cookies. Some Mexican cookies recipes result in chewy, soft cookies and others made crisp, hard cookies. Mexican cookies can be filled with fruit, chocolate, or even cajeta. Some have chocolate drizzled on top and others are very plain with just cinnamon or vanilla as a flavoring.
Alfajores are very special Mexican cookies and these are two cookies sandwiched together with a cajeta filling and then rolled in coconut flakes. Other Mexican cookie recipes, like this vanilla oatmeal cookies recipe, are a lot simpler to make. Vanilla is one of the most popular Mexican flavors for making Mexican dessert recipes and the vanilla flavoring in the following vanilla cookies recipe comes from the crushed vanilla wafers as well as the vanilla extract.
If you wanted to, you could smear some jelly or marmalade over these cookies before baking them, just to add some color as well as a fruity sweetness and a further stickiness, but this is a totally optional step because they are great made the way they are. Soften the butter and cream cheese for this cookie recipe by leaving them at room temperature for half an hour before you start making the cookie dough.
Easy Vanilla Cookies Recipe
Ingredients -
½ cup softened butter
½ cup softened cream cheese
1 cup flour
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
4 crushed vanilla wafers
1 egg
¼ teaspoon baking powder
1 cup white sugar
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a cookie sheet.
Cream the butter with the cream cheese, then beat in the white sugar gradually, until the mixture is fluffy and light.
Beat in the salt, wafer crumbs, and egg.
Whisk the flour with the baking powder, and then add this to the cream cheese mixture.
Drop rounded tablespoons of this cookie dough on to the greased cookie sheet and shape them however, you like.
Bake the cookies for about 12 minutes or until the edges are just beginning to turn golden.
The cookies will be slightly sticky and soft.
(Makes 16)
Photo Description:
This vanilla oatmeal cookies recipe is so easy to make and you can shape them however, you want, maybe into curved shapes like in the picture or perhaps into rounds or triangles. The combination of vanilla wafers and vanilla extract gives these cookies a really strong vanilla flavor. They go beautifully with your preferred hot drink and they are great after dinner or as a snack at any time. Kids will love these cheesecake cookies with vanilla wafers just as much as adults do. This vanilla oatmeal cookies recipe is so simple to follow and you cannot go wrong if you follow the recipe. They come out of the oven sticky, soft, golden brown and smelling amazing.
