Laughing Cow Cookies

To celebrate my brother's arrival home from his many travels, I decided to bake some cookies. Nothing too heavy, just a light little snackable cookie that I knew he would like. I turned to one of my favorite cookie recipes, and really one of my only ones because I don't make cookies too often, the laughing cow cookie.

Laughing cow is a spreadable cheese that comes in little wedges and my family loves it. When you buy a laughing cow disk box (that's probably not its name but I don't know how else to call it) it comes with a little recipe card. Usually I just look at the recipe and then throw it away, but when I saw this cookie recipe I decided to try it because I was curious as to what laughing cow would taste like in a cookie. Fortunately, I was not disappointed.

I can't say that the cheese flavor is strong and overwhelming, in fact its quite hard to tell there is any cheese in the cookie at all. However, for a sugar cookie it is extremely soft and moist and not overwhelmingly sweet, which I like. Also, the recipe is so simple and basic that you can make tweaks to it and have one recipe turn out several different types of cookies. For example, this time I sprinkled half the cookies with plain sugar, while the other half were coated in a cinnamon-sugar mixture. In the past, I have also made the cookies double layered with a jam filling, and once with cocoa powder to make them chocolaty. Really, the possibilities are endless and I'm sure I will come up with more in the future.

Laughing Cow Cookies
3 wedges laughing cow spreadable cheese1/3 cup unsalted butter, softened1/2 cup sugar, plus more for sprinkling 1 tsp vanilla 1 cup flour1 tsp baking powderIn a large bowl, beat the laughing cow, butter, sugar, and vanilla until smooth.In a separate bowl, combine the flour and baking powder.Add the dry ingredients to the first bowl and combine until a dough forms.Roll out the dough to about an 1/8" thickness and cut out desired shapes.Sprinkle cookie surfaces with extra sugar. Make sure to evenly coat the entire cookie.Bake at 350 Fahrenheit for 10 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes before plating.