Cream Cheese Drops
By: Helen Pitlick
Published: Friday, December 4, 2009 - 12:54am

Ingredients




1 cup butter
2 packages (3-oz)  cream cheese
1 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
2 cups flour
1/2 cup toasted, flaked coconut
walnut or pecan halves

Preparation

1 Cream butter, cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Add salt, vanilla, egg and milk; beat well. Mix in flour and coconut. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Top with nut halves. Bake at 325 degrees for 20 minutes until delicately browned on edges.

About


You can skip the nut half and instead top warm cookies with confectioner's sugar. From the Occident/King Midas Collector's Bake Book.