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Cream Cheese Delights

I found this recipe in a local newspaper, and it is a wonderful, especially during the holidays.  The cookies are a soft, light, chewy shortbread packed with nuts and flavored with cream cheese. These little cookies are so flavorful to have such a short list of ingredients.  Great with coffee, hot tea or cocoa!

1 cup butter, softened
1 (4-oz.) cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1/4 tsp. salt
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup finely chopped pecan
1 tsp. vanilla

In a mixing bowl, use an electric mixer to cream butter and cream cheese until smooth.  Add sugar and continue to mix well.  Add egg yolk, salt, and vanilla.  Mix until incorporated.  Stir in flour a 1/2 cup at a time.  Add pecans and mix well.  Cover with wrap and chill at least one hour.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Roll cookie mix into small balls the size of a walnut.  Place on cookie sheets lined with parchment paper.  Bake 12 minutes.  Don't overbake.  The cookies should be soft, chewy and lightly colored.

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