Spicy Cream Cheese Pastry

Ingredients and Instructions

2 c All purpose flour

1/2 ts Salt

2 ts Ground cayenne

1 c (2 sticks) unsalted butter,

-chilled 6 oz Cream cheese, at room

-temperature In a bowl, combine the flour, salt, and cayenne pepper and stir together. Using a pastry blender or two knives, cut in the butter and cream cheese to form a soft dough. Alternatively, combine the dry ingredients in a food processor. Add the butter and cream cheese and process with short pulsesuntil the dough just sicks together. Gather the dough into a ball, enclose in plastic wrap or waxed paper, and chill for at leat 30 minutes or for up to several hours. Makes top crust for 1 large pot pie, or 3 individual ones. Origin: Cookbook Digest Jan/Feb 1993 Shared by: Sharon Stevens