This cream cheese sugar cookie dough is my mother’s recipe. We used it every year to make Christmas cookies. I could be imagining but I think the recipe originally was on a stained index card printed from a typewriter. The egg yolk and cream cheese make a rich dough that is never dry or crumbly. When…
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About Susan
Thanks for stopping by. I'm Susan and this is Crate Cooking. I live in a 450-square-foot studio apartment in New York's Greenwich Village with my husband Luke, an assistant director and actor, and our young daughter, Leia. I cook most of our meals at home in our tiny kitchen. My career in food ...