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Kolaczki - Polish Christmas Cookies
Popularly known as Polish Christmas Cookies, the Kolaczki cookies are flaky little pastries filled with fruit, cheese, nut, or poppy seed pastes. Easy to make in an hour, they're the perfect dessert to bring to a party!
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 15 min
- Yield
- 25 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter
- 3 cups flour
- 1 cup of jam
- 1 egg yolk
- some powdered sugar
Instructions
- 1
Whisk butter with cream cheese and egg yolk.
- 2
Once it’s all fluffy, add the flour to the mixture and whisk it in.
- 3
Add in flour and whisk it all until smooth, then wrap in a foil and put in the fridge for half an hour.
- 4
Roll out the dough thinly and cut pieces about 2x2" each, then place jam in the middle of everywhere square.
- 5
Fold over the sides pinching the corners together.
- 6
Bake cookies at 350F for 15 minutes, then dust with powdered sugar before serving.