Cream Cheese Christmas Cookies
Cream Cheese Christmas Cookies is a vegetarian recipe with 60 servings. One portion of this dish contains roughly 1g of protein, 6g of fat, and a total of 96 calories. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It will be a hit at your Christmas event. If you have sugar crystals, cream cheese, sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.
Instructions
Cream together the butter and cream cheese.
Add sugar and vanilla; beat until light and fluffy.
Combine the 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.
On four sheets of aluminum foil, shape dough into four 6 inch rolls, 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Wrap each roll tightly in foil and refrigerate over night.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). 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 to 18 minutes or until bottom of cookie is lightly browned when lifted.