Hot Mushroom Turnovers

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These can be prepared in advance and frozen (baked or unbaked). If frozen baked then reheat at 450 for 6-8° F minutes; if frozen unbaked, 450° F for 15-20 minutes.

Ingredients

• 1 8 oz Package of Cream Cheese, softened
• ½ cup salted butter, softened
• 1 ½ cups All Purpose Flour
• 1/4 Fresh Cremini Mushrooms, minced
• 1 medium Onion, minced
• 1 ½ tbsp salted butter
• 2 tbsp Sour Cream
• 1 tbsp All Purpose Flour
• ½ tsp Salt
• 1/8 tsp Dried Whole Thyme
• 1 Egg, beaten

Instructions

1. Combine Cream Cheese and Butter, stirring well.
2. Add the flour, and stir until smooth.
3. Shape dough into a ball and cover with plastic wrap.
4. Chill for one hour. Make the filling.
5. While Dough is chilling, preheat oven to 450° F.
6. Sautee mushrooms in onions in the butter over low heat until tender, stirring frequently.
7. Remove from heat and stir in Sour Cream, Flour, Salt, and Thyme. Combine to Make T urnovers
8. Roll pastry to 1/8 inch thickness and cut out discs with 3 inch cookie cutter.
9. Paste 1/2 tbsp of the filling in center of each circle.
10. Brush the edges of the dough with egg, fold in half, crimp edges with a fork.
11. Puncture the top of each turnover with the fork and brush the top of each with egg.
12. Bake on Ungreased cookie sheet at 450° F for 12 minutes, or until golden.