Stuffed Date Cream Cookies

Cream cheese-based cookie dough wrapped around a walnut-stuffed date is baked into a delightful cookie perfect for the holiday season.

• Preparation Time: 30 mins
• Cooking Time: 15 mins
• Total Time: 45 mins
• Calories: 74 Calories

Ingredients

• ½ cup butter, softened
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 3 ounces cream cheese, softened
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• ¼ cup walnut halves, or as needed
• 10 ounces pitted dates, slit open
• confectioners' sugar, or as needed

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

Step 2

Beat butter and cream cheese together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Sift flour and salt together into a bowl; stir into creamed butter until dough holds together. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and chill, 3 hours to overnight.

Step 3

Press 1 walnut into each date and press closed.

Step 4

Spread a pastry cloth over a work surface and sprinkle generously with confectioners' sugar. Roll chilled dough into 1/8-inch thick rectangle on the prepared work surface. Cut dough into 3 1/2 x 1 1/2-inch strips using a pastry wheel or pizza cutter.

Step 5

Place 1 stuffed date in the center of each strip. Roll strip around date and sprinkle with confectioners' sugar. Arrange cookies, folded side-down, on a baking sheet.

Step 6

Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned, 15 to 18 minutes.