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From Kitchn

Ingredients:

• 2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature for 1 hour
• 2 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• freshly grated zest of one grapefruit
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions:

1. Beat butter, cream cheese and sugar together in a large bowl (Bowl 1) until light and fluffy. I used a hand mixer for this.
2. Add egg, vanilla extract and grapefruit zest.
3. In a separate bowl (Bowl 2) mix together flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually add to Bowl 1.
4. Divide dough into 2 balls and roll each ball until between 1/8 and 1/4 inch thick on a sheet of parchment paper. Refrigerate the rolled out dough for at least an hour.
5. Preheat oven to 350°F.
6. Cut out cookies to desired shapes and bake for 8-12 minutes.
7. Let cookies cool before decorating or enjoy as-is.

This is a slight adaptation of the recipe on Kitchn. I didn’t have any almond extract and used grapefruit zest instead of lemon because I was trying to get some use out of all the grapefruit peels we have. Tomoko says they’re the best cookies she’s ever had.