Soft- Apple cookies

Dough:
10 tbs butter
1/2 cup yogurt
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup starch
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tea spoon baking powder
3 1/2 cups flour

Filling
5 apples
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
1/2 cup ground almonds

Filling:  Grate the apples, and cook them in a pot with the sugar. Add the cinnamon and almonds and let cool.

Dough: Add all ingredients one at a time, blend in the flour and baking powder after sifting, and then knead until it forms soft dough.

Shape dough into 1 inch pieces and using a knife draw a line starting from the middle of the dough. Place 1 tsp filling on the dough at one end.  roll the dough into a moon shaped cut and put onto baking sheets. Bake in the preheated oven at 180ºC  ( 356ºF )  and remove before the top is brown. Cool completely and dust with powdered sugar.

Cheese and Cracker bites

Spicy Cheese & Cracker Bites
Taken from a Rachael Ray Magazine..and then just did my own thing with it.

In a bowl, mix 4 oz. softened goat cheese,
2 oz. softened cream cheese
and 2 tbsp. grated Parmesan.
Stir in 1⁄4 cup crushed *Triscuit crackers
**  and 3 tbsp. seeded, minced jalapeño.

Chill mixture until firm, about 30 minutes. Roll into 1⁄2 -inch balls; coat with 1⁄2 cup crushed crackers and 1⁄4 cup chopped parsley. Makes 30.

- See more at: http://www.rachaelraymag.com/blogs/rachael-ray/2015/04/14/great-snack-ideas/

*  I used Herb Triscuits- they were very tasty!
* * I do NOT like spicy so I used fresh red pepper chopped fine and mixed that in. It worked VERY well
Got rave reviews  :)