Cheese Blintzes

This recipe is handed down from our family, very old-fashioned.  I am filling in for Morgan, since she is away visiting her dad across the country.  She returns Saturday, and she promises to do a post.

What you'll need:
12 slices of bread
1/2 a package of cream cheese
some sugar, and cinnamon

1) Remove the crusts.  So easy.  All you do is take a knife to the edges.

Here's a bread tower!  It looks like beginning stages of bread pudding.  This picture really doesn't have any significance, although it looked really nice.  The last step took me forever to do, and I just wanted to play around a little with my food (Yes, it is most certainly okay to do this when you are older, and bored from doing nothing during the day.  Naptime gets better as well with age), while taking a much needed rest. Cutting bread is about the same as churning butter in my eyes.
You also have to be delicate with your bread pieces because they are super fragile and can easily rip while you are transferring it to the rolling pin.

2)  Take a rolling pin to it, make sure that the bread is as thin as the above picture.  The thinner the better.  Once you have goten the bread to the consistency you would like, preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

3) Here is the filling.  Since this recipe is very old, it doesn't say how much of each ingredient you need. Depending on how much bread you need (or blintzes), is to how much filling you will need.  6 blintzes only require 4 oz. of CC (sounds so medical!), where 12 require almost the whole package of cream cheese.  The mixture also calls for sugar and cinnamon.  Take a tablespoon of sugar, and a pinch of cinnamon. Place in microwave for 5 seconds.  This will make it room temperature, thus easier to mix.  Combine.

4) After mixing the mixture well, you can go about this step 2 ways.  The 1st way has been illustrated in the photos above.  Spread half the mixture on your bread, roll.  Then, repeat until it has been rolled.  The 2nd way to do it is to spread it all over and roll.  You have to be careful with that, because the 2nd step has a tendency of falling out from compaction.

5)  Here you go!  Once you have rolled all of your blintzes, it's time to cook them!  Place in oven for 8-10 minutes.

***OPTIONAL***

TAKE 2 SMALL BOWLS.  IN ONE BOWL, MELT SOME BUTTER.  IN SECOND COMBINE CINNAMON, AND SUGAR. PLACE 1 BLINTZ IN THE BUTTER MIXTURE.  COAT EVENLY AND HOLD UP TO LET REMAINDER DRIP BACK INTO BOWL.  THEN TRANSFER OVER TO THE C/S MIXTURE.  COAT EVENLY AS WELL.  VOILA!

&& There you go!  

-Leah