Melt-in-Mouth Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies are soft, tender sugar cookies enriched with cream cheese, which gives them a delicate, rich crumb that practically dissolves on your tongue. They’re simple drop cookies (no rolling or cutting required) with classic vanilla flavor and a light sugar sprinkle on top for a little sparkle and crunch.
Why these cookies are special
Adding cream cheese to sugar cookie dough is a well-loved trick for creating extra-soft, melt-in-your-mouth cookies that stay tender for days. The combination of butter and cream cheese, plus a relatively low level of leavening, keeps these cookies thick, soft, and slightly chewy rather than crisp.
- Ultra-soft texture from cream cheese in the dough, similar to cream cheese sugar cookie and cream cheese cookie recipes.
- Straightforward mixing method—cream butter and cream cheese, add sugar, egg, vanilla, then dry ingredients—used in many cream cheese sugar cookie formulas.
- No rolling or cutouts required; you simply roll into balls, flatten slightly, and sprinkle with sugar.