Sugar Plum Cookies

  • 1 cup butter
  • 3 ounce package cream cheese
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 and 1/4 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp baking powder

For sprinkling on top:  1/2 cup sugar and 2 tsp cinnamon  -- mix together.

Cream butter and cream cheese well.  Add the sugar, then egg yolk and vanilla.  Mix dry ingredients together and add in.  Form cookies with cookie press on an ungreased cookie sheet.  Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar over and bake at 350 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes.