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Austrian Peach Cookies

Patti Macey
These cut little cookies look and taste just like peaches!

Ingredients
  

Cookie

  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 3/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 3/4 tsp baking powder
  • 2 - 3 tsp peach brandy
  • 3 - 4 cups flour

Filling

  • 1 cup peach preserves
  • 1/2 cup chopped almonds
  • 3 ounces cream cheese (slightly less than half a package)
  • 3/4 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Decoration

  • peach flavored Jell-O (dry mix)
  • red sugar

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl, combine sugar, oil, milk, eggs, baking powder and brandy. Blend thoroughly. Work in enough flour until a soft dough forms. Roll dough into walnut sized balls. Place on baking sheets and bake in preheated oven about 15 minutes. Cookies will be pale. Remove to wire rack and cool completely.
  • When cooled, turn cookie over and scrape out cookie by gently rotating tip of knife against flat side of cookie, leaving a small shell. RESERVE CRUMBS.
  • To make the filling, in a bowl, combine 2 cups of the crumbs, peach preserves, almonds, cream cheese and vanilla. Blend together. Place a bit of this filling into each cookie shell and press two cookies, bottom to bottom, together. This forms the peach. Brush lightly with peach brandy. Then dip one end into red sugar (for blush), then roll in peach flavored Jell-O and add peach stem on top of each cookie. Makes 4 dozen cookies. Enjoy!