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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  North American >> Canadian >> Canadian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. First, make pastry. | 2. Place flour in a bowl, and add cold butter pieces; using a pastry blender, cut the butter into the flour. | 3. Add cream cheese and also cut in. | 4. You can do the above in a food processor, if you don't wish to do it by hand. | 5. When butter and cream cheese have been cut in, knead with your hands until dough forms a ball (or process in food processor until mixture just forms a ball; don't over-process or dough will toughen). | 6. Cut dough in half, wrap each half in plastic wrap, and refrigerate (you can do this ahead of time, if you wish, and then make the cookies the next day). | 7. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F; line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside. | 8. Place jam in a small bowl and stir it until it is spreadable. | 9. In another small bowl, combine the white sugar with the nuts and lemon zest. | 10. Remove one batch of dough from the fridge and roll out on a floured surface into a circle, at least 9 inches in diameter-- thinner/bigger is good, too, and will result in a crispier cookie. | 11. Spread half the jam over the circle, them sprinkle on half the nut mixture. | 12. Cut each circle into 12 wedges and tightly roll up each wedge, starting at the outside edge; bend/curve in each end so cookie resembles a crescent roll. | 13. Place cookies one inch apart on a cookie sheet. | 14. Repeat procedure with remaining dough, remaining jam, and remaining nut mixture. | 15. Beat the egg, and brush beaten egg on top of all cookies; sprinkle with coarse sugar. | 16. Bake until cookies are golden, about 20 to 25 minutes. | 17. Cool on racks; dust with sifted icing sugar if desired. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
purpose flour	1	cup		-	-	-	-
butter	1/2	cup	cut unsalted	684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
cream cheese	4	ounces	cold cut	334.53	3.969	8.0514	32.4324
apricot jam great	3/4	cup		-	-	-	-
white sugar	1/4	cup		193.5	49.99	0.0	0.0
almond	1/2	cup	chopped toasted	963.56	0.0	0.0	109.0
lemon zest	1	teaspoon	grated	-	-	-	-
egg	1			71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
sugar	1/3	cup	coarse	106.6	20.0027	3.3367	1.6640000000000001

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