Holiday Cream Cheese Cookies – 4 Ways

Holiday Cream Cheese Cookies – 4 Ways might be a good recipe to expand your hor d'oeuvre recipe box. For 59 cents per serving, this recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe makes 48 servings with 236 calories, 2g of protein, and 16g of fat each. 1400 people have made this recipe and would make it again. Head to the store and pick up semi-sweet chocolate, orange marmalade, vanilla, and a few other things to make it today. It is brought to you by Taste and Tell Blog. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. Taking all factors into account, this recipe earns a spoonacular score of 16%, which is rather bad. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Cream Cheese Frosting Two Ways, A Simple Holiday Cocktail Hour (: Cookies and Cream Cocktail), and Chocolate Cookies and Cream Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting.

Servings: 48

 

Ingredients:

1/2 cup finely chopped candied orange peel (optional, may use dried currents or chopped, dried cranberries)

12 ounces white chocolate candy melts

2 packages (8 ounces each) regular cream cheese, room temperature

4 cups flour, sifted

½ cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup finely chopped macadamia nuts (or nuts)

1/2 cup orange marmalade (or jam)

1/2 cup seedless raspberry jam

1/2teaspoon salt

12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate candy melts

16 ounces unsalted butter, room temperature

2 teaspoons vanilla (or any flavoring you wish, I used spiced rum with the citrus)

Equipment:

mixing bowl

oven

measuring cup

butter knife

plastic wrap

cutting board

bowl

Cooking instruction summary:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese and the butter together until fluffy. Add the sugar beat another minute. Add the vanilla and mix well.Measure the flour by spooning it into a measuring cup and level off the top with the back of a butter knife. Sift the flour and add to the cream cheese mixture a little at a time while mixing on low speed.Divide the dough into 3 sections. Remove one third of the dough and form into a disk. Wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate. Add the citrus peel and macadamia nuts to the other two sections as desired. Shape those sections of dough into separate disks, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate 30 to 40 minutes.Roll out each disk on a lightly floured cutting board to about ¼ inch thick. Cut into shapes. Cut one disk into 1 ½ to 2 inch circles and one into 1 inch by 2 ½ inch rectangles. Shape the remaining disk into small 1 ½ inch balls and press your thumb into the middle of each ball to make “thumbprint” cookies. Roll the sides of some of the thumbprints in chopped nuts. Spoon a tiny bit of jam or marmalade into the center of the thumbprint. Bake the different shapes on separate pans so that they will cook evenly.Bake for 15 to 17 minutes depending on the size or thickness of the cookies. Start checking the dough after 12 minutes. Remove when lightly brown and cool on wire racks.Melt the chocolate candy melts in separate bowls.Dip the circle cookies into the dark chocolate and the rectangles into the white chocolate.Place the remaining chocolates into separate plastic zip bags and place a tiny whole in one corner of each bag. Use the chocolate in the bags to drizzle over the thumbprint cookies. Let the chocolate “set up” then arrange on plates to give as gifts or set out for your family.

 

Step by step:


1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese and the butter together until fluffy.

2. Add the sugar beat another minute.

3. Add the vanilla and mix well.Measure the flour by spooning it into a measuring cup and level off the top with the back of a butter knife. Sift the flour and add to the cream cheese mixture a little at a time while mixing on low speed.Divide the dough into 3 sections.

4. Remove one third of the dough and form into a disk. Wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate.

5. Add the citrus peel and macadamia nuts to the other two sections as desired. Shape those sections of dough into separate disks, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate 30 to 40 minutes.

6. Roll out each disk on a lightly floured cutting board to about ¼ inch thick.

7. Cut into shapes.

8. Cut one disk into 1 ½ to 2 inch circles and one into 1 inch by 2 ½ inch rectangles. Shape the remaining disk into small 1 ½ inch balls and press your thumb into the middle of each ball to make “thumbprint” cookies.

9. Roll the sides of some of the thumbprints in chopped nuts. Spoon a tiny bit of jam or marmalade into the center of the thumbprint.

10. Bake the different shapes on separate pans so that they will cook evenly.

11. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes depending on the size or thickness of the cookies. Start checking the dough after 12 minutes.

12. Remove when lightly brown and cool on wire racks.Melt the chocolate candy melts in separate bowls.Dip the circle cookies into the dark chocolate and the rectangles into the white chocolate.

13. Place the remaining chocolates into separate plastic zip bags and place a tiny whole in one corner of each bag. Use the chocolate in the bags to drizzle over the thumbprint cookies.

14. Let the chocolate “set up” then arrange on plates to give as gifts or set out for your family.


Nutrition Information:

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236k Calories
2g Protein
15g Total Fat
22g Carbs
1% Health Score
Limit These
Calories
236k
12%

Fat
15g
24%

  Saturated Fat
9g
58%

Carbohydrates
22g
7%

  Sugar
11g
13%

Cholesterol
31mg
10%

Sodium
64mg
3%

Caffeine
6mg
2%

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Protein
2g
5%

Manganese
0.23mg
11%

Vitamin A
368IU
7%

Vitamin B1
0.1mg
7%

Selenium
4µg
7%

Copper
0.12mg
6%

Iron
1mg
6%

Folate
21µg
5%

Phosphorus
45mg
5%

Vitamin B2
0.08mg
4%

Magnesium
17mg
4%

Fiber
1g
4%

Vitamin B3
0.73mg
4%

Zinc
0.34mg
2%

Potassium
76mg
2%

Calcium
20mg
2%

Vitamin E
0.31mg
2%

Vitamin B5
0.14mg
1%

Vitamin K
1µg
1%

Vitamin D
0.2µg
1%

covered percent of daily need
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