Cream Cheese Cookies

Ingredients

1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1 pkg. Betty Crocker white cake mix
Icing
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese
1 stick butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 box powdered sugar

Directions

1. Heat oven to 325 degrees.
2. Cream butter an cream cheese until light and fluffy.
3. Beat in egg, vanilla, and half the dry cake mix until smooth.
4. Stir in remaining cake mix.
5. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheet.
6. Bake 8 to 10 minutes.
7. Do not overbake—cookies will be soft and light colored.
8. Cool slightly before removing from baking sheet.
9. When cool, frost with Cream Cheese Icing.
10. To prepare icing, mix ingredients well, then whip until fluffy.
11. (This makes enough icing to generously frost two batches of the cookie recipe.) Makes 3-1/2 dozen.