Carl Reiner's Cream Cheese Cookies
Submitted by nbhamlin
Crisp, wafer-thin cream cheese cookies studded with finely chopped walnuts. Just five ingredients and 10 minutes in the oven. A Hollywood legend’s own recipe.
YIELD
12 servingsPREP
20 minCOOK
10 minREADY
30 minLeave it to a comedy genius to come up with a cookie recipe this elegantly simple.
Softened cream cheese and butter get creamed together, sugar goes in gradually, then finely chopped walnuts and flour fold in to make a dough that’s rich without being heavy.
The trick is pressing each teaspoonful wafer-thin with wet fingers before baking. Ten minutes later you’ve got crisp, buttery, lace-like cookies with nutty crunch in every bite.
Five ingredients. No eggs. No vanilla. Nothing fancy. Just pure, understated brilliance.
Pro Tips
- Chop the walnuts very fine so they distribute evenly through the thin dough. Big pieces will make the cookies break apart.
- Wet your fingers before flattening each cookie. The dough is sticky and will cling to dry hands.
- Watch these closely in the oven. Wafer-thin cookies go from golden to burnt in under a minute.
- Let them cool completely on the baking sheet before lifting. They’re fragile while warm and firm up as they cool.
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat oven to 350℉ (180℃).
Cream together cheese and butter.
Add sugar gradually, creaming after each addition.
Add walnuts.
Fold in flour and blend until smooth. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.
Flatten dough with wet fingers until wafer thin.
Bake 10 minutes.
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