Spicy cream cheese pastry
1 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | cups | All purpose flour |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 2 | teaspoons | Ground cayenne |
| 1 | cup | (2 sticks) unsalted butter, chilled |
| 6 | ounces | Cream cheese, at room temperature |
Directions
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