Gingerbread Gooey Butter Cookies

Melt-in-your-mouth Gingerbread Gooey Butter Cookies baked from scratch and spiced.

Yield : Makes about 2½ dozen cookies.

Ingredients

• 2¼ cups plus 1 tablespoon (about 280 grams) pure organic unbleached all-purpose flour.
• 2 teaspoons (about 8 grams) baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon baking soda
• 2½ teaspoons organic ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons organic ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon organic ground allspice
• ½ teaspoon freshly grated organic whole nutmeg
• ¼ teaspoon organic ground cloves
• 1 (8-ounce/226-gram) package organic cream cheese.
• ½ cup (1 stick/113 grams) organic grass-fed unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup (200 grams) organic granulated cane sugar
• ½ cup (100 grams) packed organic light or dark brown cane sugar
• 1 tablespoon (15 ml) organic unsulphured molasses.
• 1 teaspoon (5 ml) pure vanilla extract
• ¼ teaspoon (1.25 ml) pure almond extract or Fiori di Sicilia extract
• ½ teaspoon fine-grain sea salt
• 1 large organic egg plus 1 large egg yolk (mine weighed 74 grams w/o shells)
• 1½ to 2 cups (180 to 240 grams) organic confectioners’ sugar, sifted, for rolling cookies twice before baking

Directions

For full directions you can go to wickedgoodkitchen.com.

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