Cream Cheese and Jelly Cookies
Diabetic Recipe

Ingredients:
3/4 cup margarine, softened
One package (8 ounces) reduced-fat cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup measurable sweetener, or eight packets
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup black cherry or seedless raspberry spreadable fruit

Directions:
Beat margarine, cream cheese and sweetener in medium bowl until fluffy; mix in flour and salt to form a soft dough. Cover and refrigerate until dough is firm, about three hours.

Roll dough on lightly floured surface into circle 1/8 thick; cut into rounds with 3-inch cutter.

Place rounded 1/4-teaspoon spreadable fruit in center of each round; fold rounds in halves and crimp edges firmly with tines of fork. Pierce tops of cookies with tip of sharp knife.

Bake cookies on greased cookie sheets in preheated 350-degree oven until lightly browned, about ten minutes. Cool on wire racks.

Recipe makes about three-dozen cookies.

Nutrition information per serving:
Calories: 80
Protein: 1g
Carbohydrate: 7g
Fat: 5g
Exchanges:  1/2 Bread, 1 Fat

See also:
Carrot and Oatmeal Cookies
Cookie Brittle
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Diabetic Peanut Butter Cookies
Chocolate Dipped Oatmeal Cookies
Cotton Candy Cookies
Cream Cheese Cookies
Corny Cookies
Peanut Butter and Banana Cookies
Mint Chip Cookies
Crispy Oatmeal Cookies
Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cream Cheese Butter Cookies
Ice Box Cookies
Fruit Candy Cookies
Butter Pecan Cookies
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cinnamon Cookies
Amish Sugar Cookies