I hosted a wedding shower recently, and had asked the bride what kind of goodies she liked. We tried to make all her wishes come true with this spread! She said she liked Chocolate chip cookies and berries.
We had blonde brownies, chocolate chip cookies, berry cups, pink flower sugar cookies, and raspberry cheesecake cookies! I had the idea for raspberry cheesecake cookies when I tried a new icing recipe with cream cheese in it, and it seemed way too rich. Then I decided to try it on a very plain sugar cookie and topped it with a raspberry and Voila! Raspberry cheesecake cookies. They were pretty and delicious! Here's the recipes:
Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
8 oz. cream cheese
2 sticks butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 3/4 cup flour
1 t. almond extract
Mix all ingredients and chill overnight. Roll out and cut into shapes. Bake on middle rack in a 400 degree oven for 7-8 minutes. Try not to let the edges brown. Frost when cooled.
I used this recipe for frosting from Pinterest and added a few drops of red food coloring into it to get the pink hue. I used an M tip and piped it onto the cookies in a rosette shape. These cookies do need to be refrigerated because of the cream cheese in the frosting.
Finally, about an hour before the party, I rinsed raspberries and let them dry on a paper towel. Then I carefully pushed one into the middle of each cookie. They were beautiful and tasty with the tart raspberry and the sweet cream cheese frosting on the plain shortbread type cookie.
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| The whole table - I got this fun picture with the groom and all the hostesses! He had arrived before the bride at the start of the shower and we thought it was funny. They're a sweet couple. |
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