Creme-Filled Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

6 Tbsp. chilled butter
1 c. sifted flour
2 1/2 Tbsp. light cream

Preparation

With pastry blender or fork, cut butter into flour until pieces are the size of small peas.
Sprinkle 1 tablespoon cream over part of mixture; toss gently with fork.
Push to one side of bowl. Sprinkle next tablespoon of cream over dry part; mix lightly.
Push to moistened part at side.
Repeat until all is moistened.
Form into ball; divide in half.
On lightly floured surface, roll to slightly less than 1/8 inch.
Cut in rounds with floured 1 1/2-inch cutter.
Dip one side of cookie in sugar.
Place sugar side up, 1/2 inch apart, on ungreased baking sheet.
With fork, prick each cookie in 4 parallel rows.
Bake at 375\u00b0 for about 8 minutes, or until golden and puffy.
Remove at once from rack.
Sandwich cooled cookies with frosting tinted for holiday.