Apricot Cream Cheese Cookies
Scrumptious Christmas cookie is made with a soft shortbread dough that includes cream cheese. Then apricot preserves are put in the centers of the cookies. After baking the cookies are sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter softened
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese softened
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tbsp. lemon juice
- 1 1/2 tsp. lemon rind grated
- 4 1/2 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour bleached flour toughens baked goods
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- apricot preserves as needed
- confectioners’ sugar as needed (powdered sugar)
Instructions
- Combine butter, sugar and softened cream cheese, mixing until well blended.
- Blend in eggs, lemon juice and rind.
- Add combined dry ingredients; mix well.
- Chill dough at least one hour.
- Shape level tablespoonfuls of dough into balls.
- Place on cookie sheets sprayed with cooking spray.
- Using thumb or finger indent centers; fill each with about 1/8 to 1/4 tsp. of preserves.
- Bake at 350° for about 15-20 minutes.
- Cool; sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar.
Notes
NOTE: You must chill the dough in this recipe. The dough is too hard to work with otherwise.
NOTE: Preparation time does not include time required to chill the dough.
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