Georgias

A few weeks ago I was in the mood to make some cookies unfortunately, as I often find myself, I lacked both the time and the ingredients necessary to make my cookies of choice. Inevitably, I was drawn to the internet for the solution to my conundrum. The result of this meandering was that I not only found a fantastic new recipe for a cream cheese based cookies, but also a very good use for the 12 oz. of cream cheese I had happened to procure.

When I originally made this recipe, I put little chocolate chips on the tops of all the cookies save one which I dropped a bit of jam on, just as an experiment. While all of the cookies were a big success, the one cookie with jam was fantastic which got me thinking.
GEORGIAS
Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 cup dimari sugar
1 egg yolk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 Tbsp cream
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp cinnamon
Powdered Sugar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Layer cookie sheets with parchment paper.
2. In a large bowl, cream together butter, cream cheese, and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk, cream, and vanilla. Stir in flour until well blended. Divide dough into two batches.
3. Using one batch of dough, drop by spoonfuls onto the cookie sheets and press into approximately 1” flat circles.
4. Using a 1/2 tsp measure, depress small indentations into all of the cookies and then fill with strawberry jam (can be substituted for others). In a small bowl mix together the sugar and cinnamon.
5. Roll out the other batch of dough to approximately 1/4”. Slice into 1/2” by 1 1/2” strips.
6. Place one strip in the powdered sugar and one strip in the cinnamon-sugar mixture and then place both of the strips on the cookie (see picture).
7. Repeat for all cookies. If the dough becomes to dry (and starts to crack) just roll it out again.
8. Bake for 15 minutes in preheated oven. Cookies should be pale.
9. After cooled on a wire rack, these cookies can be stored in an airtight container and keep well.