Breakfast and Brunch Recipes
Old Fashioned Cheese Squares
Ingredients
Dough
- 2 packages dry yeast
- 1/3 cup warm water
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 eggs, separated
Cheese Filling
- 3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Streusel
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a small bowl, mix yeast with water and 1 teaspoon granulated sugar, set aside.
- In a large bowl, cut butter into flour as for pie dough until mixture resembles small peas.
- Add egg yolks and yeast mixture and beat to blend.
- Let rise in warm place until doubled in size.
- Meanwhile, in a mixer bowl, combine cream cheese, 1 cup sugar and vanilla extract, beating well until smooth.
- Roll out half of dough mixture on a cookie sheet. Spread with cream cheese mixture over top evenly.
- Roll out other half of dough and cover cream cheese filling.
- Beat egg whites and spread on dough.
- In a bowl, combine streusel ingredients and mix well. Sprinkle over dough. Let rise for 1 hour.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
- Remove from oven and drizzle with glaze mixture made from confectioners' sugar and milk if desired.
Attribution
Posted by bettyboop50 at recipegoldmine.com.