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Cream Cheese Pastry Dough

Name: Cream Cheese Pastry Dough
Yield: yield:Makes 10 pocket pies or 1 double-crusted 10-inch pie
Ingredients: 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature; 4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature; 1/4 cup heavy cream; 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour plus 2 tablespoons, plus more for rolling out the dough; 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt

COOK TIME : a few secondsPREP TIME : a few seconds

From Martha Stewart

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Ingredients

DESCRIPTION

For a novice baker, this is the most forgiving dough to work with. The cream cheese allows this pastry some elasticity but still produces tender and flaky results. From the book "Mad Hungry," by Lucinda Scala Quinn (Artisan Books).

INGREDIENTS

8 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour plus 2 tablespoons, plus more for rolling out the dough
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt

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