Spicy Cream Cheese Pastry

Categories: Cheese/eggs | Desserts

Serves: 1 Servings

Ingredients:

2 c All purpose flour
1/2 ts Salt
2 ts Ground cayenne
1 c (2 sticks) unsalted butter,
-chilled
6 oz Cream cheese, at room
-temperature

Instructions:
In a bowl, combine the flour, salt, and cayenne pepper and stir together.
Using a pastry blender or two knives, cut in the butter and cream cheese to
form a soft dough. Alternatively, combine the dry ingredients in a food
processor. Add the butter and cream cheese and process with short
pulsesuntil the dough just sicks together. Gather the dough into a ball,
enclose in plastic wrap or waxed paper, and chill for at leat 30 minutes or
for up to several hours. Makes top crust for 1 large pot pie, or 3
individual ones.

Origin: Cookbook Digest Jan/Feb 1993 Shared by: Sharon Stevens

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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