Coffee Bean Cheese Cookies
Yields: 30 cookies
Ingredients
Dough
- 2 sticks margarine
- 4 oz whipped cream cheese
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- graham crackers or chocolate or lotus cookies crushed
Filling
- ½ container whipped cream cheese
- 4 Tbsp sugar
- ½ tsp lemon juice
- 1 egg separated
- 1 Tbsp sour cream
- Chocolate coffee beans for decoration
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In the bowl of your mixer, cream the margarine, cream cheese and sugar until fluffy.
- Add in the egg, lemon juice, flour and baking powder. Mix till dough forms. Do not over mix.
- Crush graham crackers in food processor and set aside.
- Combine all filling ingredients, besides for the egg white and mix well.
- In a separate bowl, beat egg white with fork till frothy. Form dough into 1” balls. Dip each ball into egg whites, then into crushed graham crackers. Place on parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Make indentation with thumb in center of each cookie. Place approximately ½ tsp. filling into each indentation.
- Bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and place a coffee bean in the center of the cheese filling (before the cookie cools).