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Cream Cheese Christmas Cookies

SUBMITTED BY: DeeDee

"These are so nice at Christmas time, they look as pretty as they taste."
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Original recipe yield: 4 dozen (approx.)
    
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INGREDIENTS

  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup chopped pecans
  • 1/2 cup green decorator sugar
  • 48 pecan halves
  • 1/2 cup red decorator sugar

DIRECTIONS

  1. In a large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese. Add sugar and vanilla. With electric mixer at medium speed, beat until light and fluffy. In medium sized bowl, combine flour and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture, beating until well blended. Stir in chopped pecans. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
  2. On four sheets of aluminun foil, shape dough into four 6 inch rolls, 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Wrap each roll tightly in foil and refrigerate over night.
  3. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (170 degrees C).
  4. Line cookie sheets with foil. Remove rolls of dough from refrigerator one at a time. Coat each roll with red or green sugar crystals; cut dough into 1/4 inch slices. Place on prepared cookie sheets; top each cookie with a pecan half. Bake for 15 - 18 minutes, or until bottom of cookie is lightly browned when lifted. These look so nice for Christmas.
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Reviewed on Nov. 25, 2003 by Kristy Cocoa
Yummy! Very delicate cheesecakey kind of taste. Just one note - my oven is a bit hotter than most, so the bottoms are a bit black. Starting at 10 minutes, keep y our eye on them to make sure that the cookies don't burn!

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Reviewed on Jan. 8, 2003 by KLHARRISON
These cookies were very easy to prepare and after refrigerating they were easy to cut and baked up just right. Awesome flavor will definately make again. Wonderful cookie!

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Reviewed on Nov. 10, 2007 by Deb9799
I've been looking for a cream cheese based recipes since my sister lost hers. I think this is as good if not better. I loved it with the pecans but might add chopped red and green candied cherries next time for color.

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NUTRITION INFORMATION

Servings Per Recipe: 48

Amount Per Serving

Calories: 122

  • Total Fat: 7.1g
  • Cholesterol: 15mg
  • Sodium: 77mg
  • Total Carbs: 13.7g
  •     Dietary Fiber: 0.4g
  • Protein: 1.3g

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