Apple Butter Crescents
Source of Recipe
Better Homes and Gardens Cookie Classics
List of Ingredients
2/3 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups flour
2/3 cup apple butter or seedless raspberry
jam
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Recipe
In a large mixing bowl beat butter with an electric mixer on
med.-high speed
for 30 sec. Add the 1 cup sugar, baking powder and salt.
Beat until
combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in eggs
and
vanilla.
Beat in as much flour as you can with the mixer. Stir in
remaining
flour.
Divide dough in half. Cover; chill dough in refrigerator for
3 hours
or
until easy to handle.
Line cookie sheet with foil or parchment paper; set aside.
On a lightly floured surface, roll half the dough into a 12"
square.
Cut
into sixteen 3" squares. Spread about 1 teaspoon apple
butter or
raspberry
jam down the middle of each square. Fold 1 edge of the dough
over the
filling. Fold over the other edge. Place on prepared cookie
sheet.
Make 3
cuts halfway through dough on one long side of each cookie.
Bend
cookie
slightly to separate cuts.
Combine the 2 tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon; sprinkle
cookies
with some
of the sugar-cinnamon mixture. Repeat with remaining dough,
remaining
filling and remaining sugar-cinnamon mixture.
Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 min. or until golden brown.
transfer to
wire
rack; cool.
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