Cranberry Cookies with Ginger Glaze

Name: Cranberry Cookies with Ginger Glaze
Yield: 36 - 40 (2 1/2-inch) cookies
Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour (12 1/2 ounces/354 grams); 3/4 cup, superfine sugar (5 1/2 ounces/156 grams); 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 16 tablespoons, unsalted butter, ( 2 sticks) cut into sixteen 1/2-inch pieces, at cool room temperature (about 65 degrees); 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 2 tablespoons, cream cheese, at room temperature; 3/4 cup, finely chopped dried cranberries; 1 tablespoon, cream cheese, at room temperature; 3 tablespoons, milk; 1 teaspoon, ground ginger; 1 1/2 cups, confectioners' sugar (6 ounces/170 grams); 6 tablespoons, minced crystallized ginger

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SERVES 36 - 40 (2 1/2-inch) cookies

TIME 55 minutes, plus 20 minutes cooling

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