Recipe: Cream Cheese Swirls

Had some leftover cream cheese, so decided to bake something new. Looked through my recipe book and found this recipe. Seemed easy so I tried it out. Turned out quite well. Tasted good.

Ingredients
225g butter at room temp
225g cream cheese
2 teaspoon caster sugar
225g plain flour
1 egg white beaten with 1 tablespoon water for glazing
caster sugar for sprinkling


For the filling
115g of chopped walnuts
115g of brown sugar
1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon

Instructions1. With a mixer, cream the cheese, butter and sugar.

2. Sift the flour and mix together until combined.

3. Gather into a ball and divide into half.

4. Flatten each half on greaseproof paper and refrigerate for at least 30 mins, longer will be good too.

5. Meanwhile, make the filling by mixing the brown sugar, cinnamon and walnuts.

6. Preheat 2 baking trays at 190 degrees celcius.

7. Working with one half of the dough, roll out a circle of about 28cm.

8. Brush the surface with the egg-water glaze and sprinkle filling evenly.

9. Cut the circle into quarters, then cut each quarter into 4 sections. Total, you should have 16 sections.

10. Starting from the outer edge of the circle, roll each section to form the swirls.

11. Place on your baking tray, glaze with the remaining glaze and sprinkle caster sugar over it.

12. Bake for 15-20 mins, until golden brown.


The dough can be quite difficult to handle because it might be quite sticky. My tip will be, after dividing it into 2, place them on the greaseproof paper and refrigerate a little longer. Then when handling the dough after removing from the refrigerator, just use the greaseproof paper as your working base and roll out into a 28cm circle. Try not to knead or handle the dough after it is out of the fridge because it will become sticky again.

Hope this helps! E-mail me anytime if you queries!


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