Twelve Days of Baking - Day 2

This cookie recipe happened to be on the same page of the cookbook as yesterday's, which is how I ended up making these for my baking challenge. They're kind of cute and yummy.

Cream Cheese Delights
1/2 cup butter-flavored shortening
3 oz cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
1 tsp salt
12 maraschino cherries, halved

Cream the shortening, cream cheese, and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg yolk and vanilla. Combine the flour and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto baking sheets. Top each with a cherry half. Bake at 3500 for 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned.

Notes: I actually rolled the cookies into balls instead of dropping them to make the cookies a little more uniform. The first batch didn't quite get done, so on the second, I flattened them a little before adding the cherry, and they were much better that way.