Spicy Cream Cheese Pastry Crust

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Spicy Cream Cheese Pastry Crust

 

2 cups all purpose flour

1/2 tsp. salt

2 tsps. ground cayenne

1 cup unsalted butter, chilled

6 ozs. cream cheese, at room temperature

 

In a bowl, combine the flour, salt, and cayenne pepper

and stir

together. Using a pastry blender or two knives, cut in

the butter and

cream cheese to form a soft dough. Alternatively,

combine the dry

ingredients in a food processor. Add the butter and

cream cheese and process with short pulses until the

dough just sicks together.

Gather

the dough into a ball, enclose in plastic wrap or

waxed paper, and

chill for at leat 30 minutes or for up to several

hours. Makes top

crust for 1 large veggie pot pie, or 3 individual ones.