Cream Cheese Cookies

Recipe From: Maura Gallagher's mom
Notes:  I acquired this recipe when in sophomore year of college (so 1989-1990), a group of us decided we needed to see The Little Mermaid movie, which had just come out.  It wasn't playing in Williamstown, or North Adams, but it was playing in Red Hook, NY, Maura's home town.  So off we went.  We watched the movie, and then descended on Maura's parents house, where her mother graciously fed the completely unexpected horde of college students these fabulous cookies.

Ingredients

8 oz cream cheese, softened
1/2 lb butter, softened
2 1/2 cups flour
1 jar strawberry preserves (or any preserves)
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup sugar
raisins
confectioners sugar

Instructions

Cream butter and cheese and mix with flour.  Chill dough.

Sprinkle powdered sugar over surface that you'll roll the dough out on.  Take small fists of dough and roll out into a thin circle about plate size.  Cut like a pie into 16 pieces.  Sprinkle with cinnamon, nuts and sugar.  Place one raisin & tiny drop of jam on each piece.  Roll up from wide to narrow end.  Bake at 375 degrees for approx 10 minutes or until lightly browned.  Repeat with remaining dough.

These freeze very well.