Marmalade Cheese Tarts

Ingredients:
1 cup butter
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese
3/4 cup orange marmalade
1 egg, lightly beaten

Directions:

1. In a medium mixing bowl, combine butter, flour and cheese. Knead until well blended; wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour.
2. Preheat oven to 350. On a lightly floured surface, use a floured rolling pin to roll out dough to 1/8 inch thickness.
3. Cut out dough using a 2-inch round cookie cutter [i just used a glass]. Place about 1/2 tsp marmalade in center of each circle of dough.
4. Fold dough in half and seal edges by pressing with a fork. Transfer tarts to ungreased baking sheets and brush tops with egg.
5. Bake 10-15 minutes or until tarts are set and lightly browned. Remove from pans and cool on wire racks.

*Notes:
The recipe says it yields about 5 dozen, i only got about 18 or so. but i didn’t have a proper rolling pin either. Oh i also would not recommend leaving the dough in for longer than an hour. I left it in for like 3 and it was literally a rock when i got it out—after thawing a little it was fine; maybe that’s how it was after one hour, i dunno. These are really tasty but they’re really flakey and make you want a glass of water after hahaha. The dough is kind of frustrating to work with because it keeps falling apart—can you blame it? it’s cheese, butter and flour! Oh, and one tid-bit of good news: i didn’t burn a single one! Yay oven for not being psychotic today!

p.s. about the Carrot-Apple Cupcakes: Make only half of the frosting recipe. After frosting all my cupcakes i had a lot of frosting left over.