Holiday Cookies (Reduced Sugar)

Name: Holiday Cookies (Reduced Sugar)
Yield: Makes 40 cookies
Ingredients: ⅓ cup plus ¼ cup, coconut sugar (2⅔ ounces; 75 grams); 2½ cups (12½ ounces; 354 grams), all-purpose flour; ⅛ teaspoon, salt; 16 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 16 pieces and softened; 2 tablespoons, cream cheese, softened; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons, coconut sugar (3 ounces; 85 grams); 4 teaspoons, cornstarch; 2 tablespoons, cream cheese, softened; 1–2 tablespoons, milk; ⅛ teaspoon, salt

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Reduced Sugar

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We were pleasantly surprised that halving the sugar of our traditional recipe yielded buttery, toothsome cookies with a pleasant, mild sweetness.

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SERVESMakes 40 cookies

TIME1½ hours, plus 50 minutes chilling, 20 minutes cooling and 6 hours setting

Sugar5 grams (down from 10)

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Our first versions of this reduced-sugar version gave us good-tasting cookies with an unfortunately domed appearance. We arrived at a solution through a happy accident: Halfway through baking, if we jostled the baking sheet, some of the coo...

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