Mini Cheesecake Sugar Cookies

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (can use a whole teaspoon for extra cinnamon flavor)
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 1/2 cup sugar, plus
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
• 2 for the sugar cookies, cream the sugar and the butter.
• 3 beat in the eggs and vanilla.
• 4 mix the sugar with the cinnamon, flour, baking powder, and salt.
• 5 add the dry ingredients to the creamed butter and mix until it forms a dough.
• 6 line and grease a 12 muffin tin.
• 7 roll out the cookie dough.
• 8 using a cookie cutter or a cup, cut out circles in the dough. then shape the circles into cups in the muffin tin.
• 9 bake the cookie cups for 8 minutes and remove from the oven. (you may have some leftover dough, which you can use to make some sugar cookies).
• 10 let the cookie cups rest for at least 10 minutes.
• 11 in the mean time, prepare the cheesecake filling by beating the cream cheese with the sugar, egg, and vanilla.
• 12 after the cookie cups have rested for at least 10 minutes, fill the cups with the cheesecake filling.
• 13 bake 20 more minutes, or until the cheesecake has set.
• 14 remove from the oven.
• 15 chill overnight.
• 16 you can add a fruit or chocolate sauce on top as a garnish.