Cream Cheese Pastries
From an old Betty Crocker desserts cookbook, arises this irresistible family holiday classic mini cookie. The image was borrowed from the web since these disappear faster than a camera shutter in our house.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 8 oz package cream cheese
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup jelly
Notes
Cream butter and cheese together. Mix in sugar. Combine flour and salt. Cover and chill dough in the refrigerator at least 4 hours or overnight.
Divide dough into rough thirds. Roll flat on flour dusted surface. Cut into 2&1/2 " square shapes. Move pieces to cookie sheet with parchment. Place dot of jelly in center of each square and bring up set of diagonal corners and pinch to seal.
Bake in 375F oven about 10-13 minutes.
Tips:
Tips:
- Using parchment will spare your cookie sheet from boiling jelly spill over which is very hard if not impossible to get off
- Sometimes the dough is dry from rolling, to get a better seal when closing use a drop of water
I loved eating these growing up, one of my favorite all-time cookies. Thank you for the recipe!