Description
These shortbread-style cookies always mean Christmas at our house.
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 3 oz. cream cheese
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 ½ cups flour
- 1 cup finely chopped walnuts
- ½ tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. grated lemon peel
- 1 bag of semi-sweet chocolate bits
- Non-pareils
Directions
- Cream butter, cream cheese and sugar
- Beat in egg yolk
- Stir in flour, walnuts, salt and lemon peel
- Refrigerate dough at least 2 hours
- Shape dough into "logs" -- roughly 3 inches by ¾ inches
- Place on ungreased cookie sheets
- Bake at 325° F until lightly browned
- Cool
- Melt chocolate bits in a double boiler
- Dip one end of each bar into melted chocolate, and then into the non-pareils. Place on wax paper to set chocolate
Makes about 4 dozen cookes.