Red Raspberry Jelly Crescent Cookies

A yummy treat that can be a bit habit forming to eat is the Red Raspberry Jelly Crescent Cookies. As the saying goes, "I bet you can't eat just one" of these. When made properly, they are small and they are bite size. They are like little "poppers" that you can pick up and pop right in your mouth.

The Red Raspberry Jelly Crescent Cookies are a mouth-watering sweet treat that can satisfy the sweet tooth craving. One bite, IF you can eat just one, can satisfy that craving.

The recipe below has become one of my favorite homemade baked goods for the holidays, however they can be made at any time of the year. These Red Raspberry Jelly Crescent Cookies can be made for any occasion - weddings, baby showers, bridal showers, birthday parties, anniversaries or any time you want to make a special treat for your family.

If red raspberry is not your preferred flavor, you can replace with strawberry, blueberry or any other fruit flavor that you desire.

The ingredients needed for the Red Raspberry Jelly Crescent Cookies are as follows:

8 oz room temperature cream cheese 
1 1/3 cups softened butter 
2 2/3 cups flour

Mix the cream cheese, butter and the flour. Blend the ingredients well. Once your ingredients are well blended, you will have a nice soft dough. Separate the dough into five (5) dough balls. Wrap each dough ball separately in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.

Roll dough ball on lightly floured surface to form circle. Cut into approximately twelve (12) wedges (however, if you wish to have smaller, bite size cookies; you may wish to cut the dough ball in half before rolling to form a circle to make smaller wedges).

Spread a thin coat of Red Raspberry Jelly (or your preferred flavor) on the rolled out dough circle - wedges. Roll the wedges to the point and shape in crescent formation.

Bake at 350 degrees on an ungreased cookie sheet for 10-15 minutes. The bottoms will be lightly browned. Cook them on a rack.

After they are cooled, you will want to drizzle with the frosting.

The ingredients for the frosting is as follows:

1 cup confectioner sugar 
4 tsp lemon juice 
Blend these ingredients well and drizzle on the cookies.

Helpful tips:

Butter should not be replaced with margarine.

Be sure to refrigerate the dough overnight. There is definitely the need for refrigeration-for a minimum of no less than 10-12 of refrigeration.

When spreading the jelly on the rolled out dough, be sure that it a thin layer. If you put too much jelly on the dough, it will squish out, baked out of the cookies and cause your cookies to stick to the pan and/or cooling rack.

Do not drizzle the frosting on hot cookies. They need to be cooled. Otherwise, the icing will melt and run off of the cookies.

These Red Raspberry Jelly Crescent Cookies can be frozen for up to 3 months (sometimes longer, if package properly in a nicely sealed container