Jamborees

By mollydahma

One of the Davis family holiday cookie recipes

The first couple batches usually gets eaten pretty immediately.

Ingredients

• 1 cup soft butter
• 1/2 lb ( 1 8 oz pkg) cream cheese
• 2 cups flour
• 1/4 t salt
• jelly apricot , of course
• currant or some darker jelly
• finely chopped walnuts

Preparation

Step 1

Cream butter and cream cheese together.

Blend in flour and salt with fingers. Handle dough as little as possible.

Chill until firm.

Roll out dough to 1/8 "

Cut with fluted dough cutter. into 2" square.

Bake @ 400 degrees for 8 minutes.

Scrape or wash cookie sheet between batches to avoid burning the jelly runoff in subsequent batches. If the jelly burns and hardens, it really is a lengthy mess to clean.