Cheesecake Cookies

These have a light citrus flavor. They just melt in your mouth!! Cook time includes chill time.

• Ready In: 1 hr 45 mins
• Yields: 4 1/2 dozen

Ingredients

• 1  cup butter or 1  cup margarine
• 4  ounces cream cheese
• 1  cup sugar
• 1  egg
• 1  teaspoon  grated fresh lemon rind
• 1  tablespoon lemon juice
• 2 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1  teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄4 cup fine graham cracker crumbs

• Cheese filling

• 4  ounces cream cheese
• 2  tablespoons sugar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon  grated fresh lemon rind
• 1  egg yolk
• 1  tablespoon half-and-half

Directions

1. Cream butter, cream cheese and sugar until blended.
2. Add egg, lemon rind and lemon juice; mix well.
3. Combine flour and baking powder and add to first mixture and blend well; cover. Chil for at least 1 hour. Shape dough into 1-inch balls; roll in graham cracker crumbs. Arrange on ungreased baking sheets.
4. With finger make an indentation in center of each cookie. Fill with level 1/2 teaspoonful of filling (See below).
5. Bake at 350F for about 20 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool; store airtight.
6. Cheese Filling:.
7. Beat together all filling ingredients until smooth.