Description
Soft and buttery apricot cream cheese cookies filled with sweet preserves and dusted with powdered sugar.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter softened
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 8 oz cream cheese softened
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 1/2 tsp lemon zest
- 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup apricot preserves
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Cream butter sugar and cream cheese until smooth
- Add eggs lemon juice and zest and mix well
- Combine dry ingredients and add to mixture
- Chill dough for one hour
- Roll dough into balls and place on baking sheets
- Indent centers and fill with apricot preserves
- Bake at 350F for 15 to 20 minutes
- Cool and dust with powdered sugar
Notes
- Chill dough before shaping
- Do not overfill preserves
- Rotate pans during baking
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 122
- Sugar: 8
- Sodium: 49
- Fat: 5
- Saturated Fat: 3
- Unsaturated Fat: 2
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 18
- Fiber: 0
- Protein: 2
- Cholesterol: 21