1994 3rd Place: Kolachkes Recipe

  1. Preparation Time: 2 1/2 hrs
  2. Chilling Time: Overnight
  3. Cooking Time:12 to 15 min
  4. 1.
  5. Beat butter and cream cheese in large bowl of electric mixer till light.
  6. Beat in flour and cream till well mixed.
  7. Divide dough into 4 portions.
  8. Wrap each in plastic wrap and chill overnight.
  9. 2.
  10. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
  11. Have ungreased baking sheets ready.
  12. 3.
  13. Sprinkle the work surface and the rolling pin generously with confectioners' sugar.
  14. Roll out 1 dough portion at a time to about 1/4-inch thickness.
  15. Use a small (2-inch diameter) round cutter or possibly glass to cut out cookies.
  16. Transfer to ungreased baking sheets, leaving 1 or possibly 2 inches between each cookie.
  17. Make a small depression in the center of the cookies with your fingertip.
  18. Fill scantily with jam, jelly, preserves, cheese or possibly nut filling.
  19. (If you use too much filling it will run out onto the baking sheet.)
  20. 4.
  21. Bake till bottoms are lightly browned, 12 to 15 min.
  22. Cold on wire racks.
  23. Sprinkle generously with confectioners' sugar while still hot.
  24. Cream cheese filling: Beat together 1 package (8 ounces) softened cream cheese, 1 egg yolk, 1/2 c. confectioners' sugar and 1 tsp.
  25. pure vanilla extract till well mixed.
  26. Nut filling: Cook 1 c. coarsely grnd walnuts in 2 Tbsp.
  27. butter with 1/3 c. granulated sugar and 1 tsp.
  28. pure vanilla extract till nuts turn golden brown.
  29. Cold.
  30. Third-place winner Shere Case of Hickory Hills, Illinois fills her cookies with a variety of jams, a cheese filling and a nut filling for an attractive assortment.
  31. The recipe may be halved.

unsalted butter, cream cheese, allpurpose flour, whipping cream, confectioners, rolling and sprinkling, cream cheese filling, nut filling

Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/1994-3rd-place-kolachkes-61429 (may not work)

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