Vanilla Chewies (Lower Fat)

• 50 g butter
• 125 g low-fat cream cheese, 0 . 2% fat
• 80 g brown sugar, more if you prefer your cookies sweet
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon ground vanilla bean
• 250 g flour (I use spelt flour)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon organic brown icing sugar
• 1 teaspoon water (or more)

1. Melt butter in a small sauce-pan.
2. In a big bowl cream the cream cheese, butter and egg.
3. In a separate bowl combine flour, baking powder and vanilla.
4. Gradually add this to the cream cheese mixture.
5. Form dough into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
6. Now either take small lumps of dough (aobut 1 ts) and roll between your fingers to form a long thickish string.
7. Shape this into a pretzel or a curly loop.
8. Or simply form into balls (size of a walnut).
9. Place on a paper-lined cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes at 180C/390F or until tester comes out clean.
10. If using the glaze, mix together icing sugar and enough water to make a paste.
11. Spread onto cooled cookies.

butter, lowfat cream cheese, brown sugar, egg, ground vanilla bean, flour, baking powder, brown icing sugar, water

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/vanilla-chewies-lower-fat-397325 (may not work)