Raspberry Bow Tie Cookies #Christmas #Cookies

Raspberry Bow Tie Cookies are a festive cookie to add on your holiday cookie tray.

Thanksgiving is over and the Christmas season has begun! I spent the day after Thanksgiving relaxing and baking.

I simply can’t get out to the stores to combat the crowds. No sale is well worth that quantity of craziness for me.

i might lots instead be in my kitchen baking! these raspberry bow tie cookies are my kick off to the vacation season!

INGFREDIENTS

• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup raspberry jam
• 1 egg white
• 1 Tablespoon water
• powdered sugar for dusting cookies
• 8 oz cream cheese softened
• 8 oz butter softened
• 3/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

INTRUCTIONS

1. In a mixing bowl, blend cream cheese and butter together.
2. mix in powdered sugar and vanilla.
3. mix in flour. Beat till all flour is incorporated into dough.
4. Divide dough in half of. Wrap every 1/2 in plastic wrap, knocking down into a 4 inch disc.
5. Refrigerate for at least one hour or overnight.
6. when ready to bake, work with one disc of dough at a time.
7. area on a gently floured floor and roll into a square form until dough is approx. 1/eight" thick.
8. Trim edges and reduce into 2 inch squares.
9. location half teaspoon of jam on each square. unfold jam on dough.
10. mix egg white collectively with water. 
11. Fold  corners collectively over your index finger.  location a dab of egg white combination between overlapping corners of cookies. Press firmly collectively so the dough is fused.  
12. place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Press folded facets down barely so they may be no longer rounded.  this will assist prevent cookies from coming apart whilst baking. 
13. Bake for 10  minutes in a preheated four hundred diploma oven.
14. Cool on a baking rack.  Sprinkle with powdered sugar when completely cooled.

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