Cream Cheese Cookies

• 12 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 116 teaspoon salt
• 12 cup Crisco
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 12 cups flour
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
• 12 teaspoon vanilla
• sugar

1. Cream together butter, shortening & cream cheese.
2. Add sugar, salt, vanilla and egg yolk, mix well.
3. Gradually blend in flour and mix well.
4. Use 1 teaspoonful of dough and make into a rounded ball then place on greased cookie sheet (or use parchment paper - works a lot better!
5. ).
6. Bake for about 15 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.
7. Remove from oven.
8. Grease the bottom of a glass with butter and then dip into sugar - use this to flatten out cookies while they are still hot and leave sugar coating on top.

butter, sugar, salt, crisco, egg yolk, flour, cream cheese, vanilla, sugar

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/cream-cheese-cookies-495439 (may not work)