Recipe: Hungarian Xmas Cookies (with cream cheese pastry)

HUNGARIAN XMAS COOKIES

2 cups flour
1 cup butter, softened
2 pkg. (8 oz. each) cream cheese, softened
Apricot and/or Prune Lekvar (puree/butter)
Powdered sugar (for dusting)

Blend flour, butter and cream cheese together in bowl with a wire pastry blender until dough forms together. Roll out like pie crust on a lightly floured surface. Cut in 2x2-inch squares. (If you have a pie crust trimmer with a crimped wheel, you can use this to cut all the 2x2-inch squares. It makes a beautiful presentation. All the pastry edges have serrated edges.)

Put a dab of Apricot or Prune Lekvar in the middle of square. Take up two of the opposite corners and bring the two corners together with a squeeze over the dab of Lekvar. Place on a buttered and floured cookie sheet.

Bake at 350 degrees F for 20 minutes. Do not let burn. Dust with powdered sugar.

From: Dawn/NYS
Source: June Meyer