Cream Cheese Spirals Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• Take off crusts from white bread.
• Take 2 slices, and lay one above (not on top) the other overlapping the edge by about half an inch.
• Roll out well with a rolling pin to seal and flatten.
• You should have a long piece now.
• Spread with flavoured cream cheese right to the edges, and lay on a spinach/shard leaf Roll up tightly and leave in the fridge overnight.
• Remove from fridge- Cut the roll into inch slices, push a pick through (optional) and lay decoratively on a platter.

Steps:

• 1. With an electric mixer, cream the butter, cream cheese and 2 tsp sugar until soft. Sift the flour over the cream cheese mixture and mix until combined. Gather into a ball and divide in half. Flatten each half, wrap in plastic and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
• 2. Make the Filling: In a small bowl, mix together the chopped walnuts, brown sugar and cinnamon; set aside.
• 3. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper; set aside.
• 4. Working with one half of the dough at a time, roll it out thinly into a circle about 11 inches in diameter. Trim the edges with a knife, using a dinner plate as a guide. Brush the surface with the egg white glaze and then sprinkle evenly with half of the filling.
• 5. Cut the circle into quarters, and each quarter into 4 sections, to form 16 triangles. Starting from the base of the triangles, roll up to form spirals.
• 6. Place the spirals on the cookie sheets and brush with the remaining glaze. Sprinkle with caster sugar. Bake for 15 - 20 minutes, or until golden. Cool on a wire rack.

Steps:

• Make pastry dough:
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
• Pulse butter, cream cheese, yolk, and vanilla in a food processor until smooth, then add flour mixture and pulse until dough just forms a ball.
• Halve dough and form each half into a roughly 6- by 2-inch rectangle. Chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, until firm, about 1 1/2 hours.
• Make filling:
• Purée figs, honey, juice, zest, and cinnamon in cleaned food processor until almost smooth.
• Make logs:
• Roll out 1 piece of dough between 2 sheets of wax paper into a 10- by 8-inch rectangle (about 1/3 inch thick), long side facing you. Remove top sheet of wax paper and gently spread one fourth of fig mixture over bottom half of dough, leaving a 1/4-inch border. Using wax paper as an aid, roll dough, jelly-roll style, halfway, enclosing fig mixture. Flip dough, with wax paper. Remove paper. Spread with one third of remaining fig mixture and roll in same manner, to form an S-shaped log. Make another log. Chill logs, wrapped in wax paper, until firm, at least 4 hours.
• Bake cookies:
• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375°F.
• Cut logs crosswise into 1/3-inch-thick slices and arrange slices about 2 inches apart on lightly buttered baking sheets. Bake until pastry is pale golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Transfer to racks to cool.