Smiling Apple Cookies

Soft cream-cheese dough hand pies filled with cinnamon-sugar apple slices and dusted generously with powdered sugar.

Ingredients

250 g		soft butter
100 g		powdered sugar
2 packets		vanilla sugar
250 g		cream cheese
420-450 g		flour
3		medium apples (red-skinned; yellow-skinned also work)
50 g		sugar
1/2 tsp	2.5 ml	cinnamon
—		powdered sugar for dusting

Beat the soft butter, powdered sugar and vanilla sugar with a mixer. Add the cream cheese and flour. Knead a soft dough. Leave the dough for 10 minutes in the fridge.
Meanwhile, wash and dry the apples and cut them in half. Remove the core with a knife and slice them into half-moons 6-7 mm thick. Mix the sugar and cinnamon. Turn the oven on to 200 degrees.
Roll out the dough into a thin sheet 6-7 mm (help yourself with flour). Cut out circles with a glass. There are three variants, choose which one you'll make:
Variant 1 - on the cut-out dough place a piece of apple on one side and fold over. Arrange in a tray lined with paper.
Variant 2 - on the cut-out round of dough place, on one side, a piece of apple rolled in the sugar-cinnamon mix, fold over with the other part of the dough and arrange in a paper-lined tray.
Variant 3 - roll the cut-out piece of dough in the sugar-cinnamon mix. On one side place a piece of apple and fold over with the other part of the dough.
Bake in the preheated oven until done. While still warm, dust generously with powdered sugar.