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Cream Cheese Kolacky

Total Time
1h 29m
12m prep · 77m cook
Servings
4 people
Rating
Difficulty
Medium
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🥬 Vegetarian 🥜 Nut-Free ☪️ Halal ✡️ Kosher

Kolacky are delicious cream cheese pastries with a fruit filling. The dough for these cookies is what makes them exceptional. The most popular fillings are peach, apricot, raspberry, and date but you can use whatever you like. This year I'm trying Michigan cherry preserves and cranberry marmalade. I always quadruple this recipe for the holidays. You better hide a few for Christmas day — these are the ones that go first!

Ingredients

  • 3 ounces cream cheese
  • 0.5 cups butter , softened
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 0.5 cups any flavor fruit jam
  • 0.33 cups confectioners' sugar for decoration

Instructions

  1. 1

    Gather all ingredients.

  2. 2

    Mix cream cheese and butter together in a bowl until smooth.

  3. 3

    Gradually stir in flour until just combined. Shape dough into a ball; cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least 3 hours or overnight.

  4. 4

    Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).

  5. 5

    Roll out dough on a floured pastry board to a thickness of 1/8 inch. Cut into 2 1/2-inch squares and place about 1/2 teaspoon of jam or preserves in the center.

  6. 6

    Overlap opposite corners and pinch together. Place on ungreased baking sheets.

  7. 7

    Bake in the preheated oven until golden, about 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on wire racks. Dust kolacky lightly with confectioner's sugar.

Nutrition Facts

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