Happy Hour "cookies"
From bigcookiedude 13 years ago
- 15 minutes to make
- Serves 48
The blue cheese, figs, and walnuts harmonize beautifully, and provide a balanced savory-sweet blend. They are the perfect, light, mellow accompaniment for fruit and cheese boards.
Ingredients
- 4 oz blue cheese, crumbled shopping list
- 1/2 C butter, softened shopping list
- 1 1/2 C all purpose flour shopping list
- 1/2 tsp salt shopping list
- 1/2 tsp black pepper shopping list
- 1/8 tsp cayenne shopping list
- 1/2 C dried figs, cut into small pieces (kitchen shears work better than a shopping list
- knife) shopping list
- 1/2 C toasted walnuts, finely chopped shopping list
How to make it
- Cream butter in mixer bowl until fluffy. Add blue cheese, flour, and seasonings, mixing until well blended. Stir in figs and walnuts, blending well. Chill dough for 5 minutes.
- Divide dough into two equal portions. Shape each portion into a 6 inch log. Wrap each log in plastic wrap. Chill one hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Slice dough into 1/4 inch slices. Place on parchment lined baking sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes, until lightly browned.
- Store in airtight container.
- This dough freezes well. Thaw in refrigerator, then slice and bake according to directions.
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