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Holly Wreaths Recipe

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Meet the Cook: I've never come across another spritz cookie like this - one calling for cream cheese as an ingredient. That helps to keep these wreaths moist a long time, while also adding a delicious flavor. Our home is on a couple of acres out in the country. We're retired, with four children and seven grandchildren. -Dee Lein, Longmont, Colorado

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Holly Wreaths Recipe

Prep: 20 min. Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling

Yield: 18 Servings

20 10 30

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1 package (3 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
Green cherries, cut into thin slices
Red-hot candies
Frosting and decorator gel

Directions

In a bowl, cream butter and cream cheese. Add sugar; blend well. Stir in vanilla. Gradually beat in flour.
Using a cookie press fitted with star tip, form dough into 2-1/2-in. wreaths on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 10-12 minutes or until set but not brown. Cool on wire racks. Decorate wreaths with green cherry "leaves" and red-hot candy "berries" attached with a drop of frosting. Add bows with decorator gel. Yield: about 3 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (2 each) equals 178 calories, 12 g fat (7 g saturated fat), 32 mg cholesterol, 117 mg sodium, 16 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 2 g protein.

Originally published as Holly Wreaths in Country Woman November/December 1992, p33

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Reviewed on Jan. 03, 2011 by newter5

My mom made these cookies with my great-grandma and I've made these with my mom since I can remember. Christmas wouldn't be the same without these cookies. I now make these cookies with my son, but I'm not as patient as my mom and I use the tree disc on my cookie press :) I know that they do freeze well.

Reviewed on Dec. 28, 2009 by kknepper

they taste good but very fragile nothing to write home about,press and working with a cookie press was very frustrating particularly the newest pampered chef brand. The green cherries and red hots fell off, did not stay on so good

Reviewed on Dec. 21, 2009 by avonlea163

They taste good but break easily.

Reviewed on Dec. 01, 2009 by Eileen156

I'm new to making cookies with a press and was wondering how these would turn out in a different shape (something more basic) and has anyone tried freezing these? thanks

Reviewed on Dec. 15, 2008 by KorrineR

I havve been looking for this recipe. My Grandma used to make these! We had lost the recipe. They are wonderful. She used to use the decorator frosting and pipe holly leaves and berries.