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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Deutschland >> German

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease cookie sheets; set aside. | 2. In large bowl cream butter and cream cheese. Slowly work in 3 cups flour. Divide dough into 6 equal pieces and shape into squares. Lightly flour dough, wrap in waxed paper and refrigerate at least 1 hour. Combine remaining 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 cup powdered sugar. | 3. Remove one piece of dough at a time from refrigerator; roll out on surface dusted with flour-sugar mixture to 18x5x1/8-inch thick strip. | 4. Combine granulated sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle dough strip with 2 tlbs sugar/cinnamon mixture. Sprinkle about 1/4 cup M&M's on wide end of each strip. Roll dough starting at wide end to completely enclose baking bits. Cut strip into 1 1/2 inch lengths; place seam side down about 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheets. | 5. Repeat with remaining ingredients. Bake 16 to 18 minutes until golden. Cool completely on wire racks. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Store in tightly covered container. | 6. ***Variation***. | 7. For crescent shapes, roll each piece of dough into 12 inch cirle. Sprinle with cinnamon/sugar mixture. Cut into 12 wedges. Place about 1/2 tsp M&M's at wide end of each wedge and roll up to enclose baking bits. Place seam side down on prepared cookie sheets and proceed as directed. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	1 1/2	cups		2052.0	94.28399999999999	64.116	172.8
cream cheese	12	ounces	softened	1003.59	11.907	24.1542	97.2972
purpose flour	3 1/2	cups	divided	-	-	-	-
sugar	1/2	cup	powdered	233.4	59.861999999999995	0.0	0.0
sugar	3/4	cup	granulated	239.85	45.006	7.5075	3.7439999999999998
cinnamon	1 1/2	1/2	ground	-	-	-	-
baking bit	1 3/4	cups	divided	-	-	-	-
sugar			powdered	233.4	59.861999999999995	0.0	0.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.