Spicy Cream Cheese Pastry

Recipe Cuisine: Cheese/eggs
Recipe Category: Cheese/eggs
Recipe Serves: 1

Recipes Ingredients:

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

Recipe 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