Bite-size Jam Swirls

Total Time: 4 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 4 hrs Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 dash salt
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup raspberry jam or 1/2 cup apricot jam
• 1 cup finely chopped nuts
• coarse sugar

Recipe

• 1 in a medium mixing bowl, combine the flour and salt.
• 2 using a pastry blender, cut in the cream cheese and butter till the mixture resembles fine crumbs and begins to cling together.
• 3 divide dough in half.
• 4 cover and chill for 1 hour.
• 5 on a lightly floured surface, roll each half of dough into 1/4 inch thickness.
• 6 fold dough in thirds.
• 7 wrap in clear plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours.
• 8 roll each half of the dough into a 14x2 inch rectangle.
• 9 spread each half with jam to within 1/2 inch of edge of dough: sprinkle with nuts.
• 10 beginning with long side, roll up, jelly-roll style: seal the seam.
• 11 cut into 1/2 inch slices.
• 12 roll one side of each cookie in coarse sugar.
• 13 place the cookies, sugar side up, 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• 14 bake in a 375 degree oven for about 15 minutes or till lightly browned.
• 15 remove from cookie sheet and allow to cool on a wire rack.