Baked cream cheese bites

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-1/2 cup cream cheese, room temperature

-1 1/4 cup brown rice flour

-1/4 cup butter, room temperature

-1 egg

-1/4 cup coconut sugar

-2 tbsp poppy seeds

-crushed nuts(optional)

1. You don’t need to pre heat oven yet, wait a few steps, but these will bake at 300 degrees.

2. Go ahead and whisk egg, sugar and butter together.

3. Gradually add in flour and poppyseed and mix until it becomes a workable dough. Roll into a ball and let sit for 5-10 minutes.

4. Place parchment paper onto countertop and dust it with some flour. Place ball of dough onto the center of parchment paper and start to roll it out. Roll out very evenly. Feel free to add the crushed nuts over the top if using, like you see in the pictures below.

5. Grab one side and roll the dough into spirals. One and a half turns. Cut lengthwise. Repeat.

6. Cut rolled out dough into desired bite sized pieces and rearrange on the parchment paper.

7. Bake for 45 minutes or until desired crunch. Enjoy!