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Delicious Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Sour Cream Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting made approachable with clear cues, pantry staples, and flexible swaps.
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Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup butter softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup butter softened (for frosting)
  • 4 oz. cream cheese
  • 3 ½ cups powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract for frosting

Method
 

  1. Cream the butter and sugar together.
  2. Add eggs and vanilla extract.
  3. Sift together dry ingredients.
  4. Combine dry ingredients with wet ingredients.
  5. Chill the dough.
  6. Preheat the oven and prepare baking sheets.
  7. Roll out the cookies and cut shapes.
  8. Bake the cookies.
  9. Cool the cookies.
  10. Make the cream cheese frosting.
  11. Frost the cooled cookies.

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