Lemon Cream Cheese Crescents
"A great and tasty treat"
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
-
24 crescents
ingredients
-
Pastry
- 1⁄4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine, softened
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 1 cup flour
-
Filling
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 grated lemon, rind of
- sugar, to sprinkle
directions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Combine pastry ingredients until well blended.
- Divide into 3 balls.
- Cover and place in refrigerator while making filling.
- To make filling:.
- Blend cream cheese, sugar and lemon rind.
- Roll one ball on lightly floured board into a 9 inch circle.
- Spread with 1/3 of filling.
- Cut into 8 triangular wedges.
- Roll up each wedge from the wide end towards centre and curl slightly into crescents.
- Repeat with the other balls.
- Sprinkle with sugar.
- Crescents can be assembled to this point, and refrigerated overnight, or frozen.
- Bake on lightly greased cookie sheet 25 minutes.
- Best served warm DO NOT MICROWAVE!
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i live in rural canada. i love to cook, penpalling, hockey,music, and wwe wrestling. also am a avid fishermen as well. my grandmother who was a great cook and baker (she owned and operated a bake shop for years) was my biggest inspiration for me learning to cook and bake.
