Belle's Magic's Cream Cheese Cookies aka Dead Aunt's Cookies

Cream Cheese Cookies



1 cup butter

1 sm pkg of Cream Cheese (3oz)

1 cup sugar

1 egg yolk

2.5 cups flour

1 tsp. vanilla



Cream butter and cream cheese . Slowly add sugar beat until fluffy

Beat in egg yolk, add flour and vanilla. Mix Well. Chill dough for at least 1 hour. Shape into 1 inch balls. Place on greased cookie sheet.

Bake at 325 degrees for 12-15 mins.



Frosting

2 cups powdered sugar

4 tablespoons lemon juice

4 tablespoons of butter

1 grated lemon rind



Cream butter and add sugar slowly add lemon juice and rind.

Spread on warm cookies


**Edited to add the story originally posted by Belle's Magic (thanks psoccer)***

""My Great Aunt made these AMAZING cream cheese cookies. Everyone in my family loves them. About 10 years ago she gave some of us the recipe. I have made them a couple of times....but they never came out right. It drove me crazy! I could not figure it out.



My Aunt passed away about 1 1/2 years ago at the ripe old age of 93!! My cousin was going through the box of cookbooks she left behind. She found the cookie recipe and it is NOT the same recipe she gave us. The recipe was titled "Secret Cream Cheese Cookies" on the back of the recipe card along with the "secret" frosting recipe it said " DO NOT GIVE OUT UNTIL I AM DEAD"



The woman was a RIOT!!! LOL!"
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