Friday, December 10, 2010

Christmas Cookies~Andrea's Cream Cheese Cookies and Pie Crust

Andrea's grandma's Cream Cheese Thumbprint Cookies:

3 oz cream cheese
3 oz butter
1 cup white flour

Cream together, let set half an hour, roll out to 1/4 in thick or less. Cut into circles and place on cookie sheet. Press thumb into each cookie and fill with small dollop of strawberry jam, bake at 375 for 12 minutes. Remove from oven and immediately dust with powdered sugar.

The best part is that the dough, by itself, makes awesome piecrust. For Thanksgiving, I started with a pound of cream cheese, pound of butter, and 5 1/3 c flour, made 5 pie crusts and used the crust trimmings to make two dozen cookies!

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