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Cottage Cheese Cookies Roses with Meringue
Cottage Cheese Cookies Roses are known by many since childhood, they are perfect for a home tea party. The cookies turn out soft on the inside with a crispy crust and a pleasant layer of meringue. Cottage Cheese Roses are quick and easy to prepare, requiring a minimal set of ingredients. Such homemade pastries will always be timely on a Sunday when the whole family is at home.
Preparation time: 90 minutes.
Caloric content: 346 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.
Ingredients
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- cottage cheese – 250 g;
- flour – 250 g;
- butter – 150 g;
- eggs – 2 pcs;
- sugar – 200 g;
- salt – a pinch;
- baking powder – 1 tsp.
Preparation
- Prepare all the ingredients for making cottage cheese cookies Roses with meringue. You can take cottage cheese of any fat content and consistency. The butter should be very cold from the fridge. Eggs should be at room temperature.
- Separate the eggs into whites and yolks.
- In a deep bowl, place the cottage cheese, 100 grams of sugar, and the prepared yolks. Mash until smooth using a regular fork.
- Add the baking powder to the flour.
- In a large bowl, sift the dry ingredients. Take the butter out of the fridge.
- Finely chop the butter and transfer it to the bowl with the flour.
- Rub the flour and butter together until you get a uniform crumb.
- Transfer the cheese mixture to the container with the flour.
- And knead the dough. If there are lumps of cottage cheese in the dough, it will be even more interesting. Transfer the prepared dough to a bag and send it to the fridge for about twenty minutes.
- In the meantime, prepare the meringue. Put the prepared egg whites and a pinch of salt into a blender cup. Whip the egg whites into a foam. Gradually add 100 grams of sugar to the egg whites, continuing to whip at maximum speed.
- The egg whites are whipped into a fluffy foam.
- Take the dough out of the fridge and divide it into two parts.
- Roll one part into a rectangular layer. Keep the second part of the dough in the fridge for now. Roll the dough out to five millimeters.
- Spread half of the meringue on the rolled-out dough.
- Roll up a not-too-tight roll. To avoid squeezing out the meringue.
- Using a knife, cut circles two centimeters wide.
- Round each piece.
- And transfer to a baking sheet. The distance between the roses should be at least two to three centimeters. The oven is already preheated to 180°C.
- The cottage cheese cookies Roses are ready, they were baked for up to 40 minutes. In the finished cookies, the cottage cheese lumps resemble crushed nuts.
This cookie pairs excellently with any drink: tea, coffee, compote, or milk.
