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Goose feet cottage cheese cookies
Goose feet cottage cheese cookies – so tender, homemade, it is the cookie we know from childhood. The crispy crust and soft center of the pastry are achieved thanks to the layered dough and the addition of cottage cheese. Very simple cookies made from readily available ingredients, they can be made even by a novice housewife. Goose feet cookies are prepared quickly, and the yield is quite large.
Preparation time: 45 minutes.
Ingredients
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- flour – 300 g;
- cottage cheese – 650 g;
- eggs – 1 pc;
- vanillin – 1 packet;
- salt - a pinch;
- lemon zest – optional;
- baking powder – 10 g;
- butter – 200-230 g;
- sugar – 150-200 g.
Preparation
- Prepare the ingredients for making cottage cheese cookies "Goose feet". The butter should be very cold from the refrigerator. Sugar is not used in the dough; it serves only for rolling.
- In a bowl, add the egg, salt, and lemon zest to the cottage cheese. You can pre-rub the cottage cheese through a sieve.
- Combine all the ingredients with the cottage cheese using a silicone spatula; you can also blend the mixture with a blender. This way, the mixture will become smooth and elastic, and the cottage cheese granules will be hardly noticeable.
- Set the cottage cheese mixture aside. Take a bowl with previously sifted flour. Add the baking powder and vanillin, and gently mix all the dry ingredients with a spoon.
- Take the butter out of the refrigerator; it should be very cold. Roll the butter in flour on all sides.
- Grate the butter on a coarse grater and rub it with the flour.
- Add the cottage cheese mixture to the bowl with the flour and mix until homogeneous. It is easier to do this with a spoon at first, then use your hands. The dough becomes quite sticky; to make it easier to knead, you can moisten your hands with a small amount of vegetable oil.
- The dough needs to be well kneaded, but do not overdo it with flour. Also, remember the presence of butter; it should not heat up too much from the warmth of your hands; work with the dough quickly. Form the finished dough into a ball and transfer it to a bag. Send it to the refrigerator for fifteen to twenty minutes to cool.
- Dust the working surface with flour and lay out a third of the dough. Put the remaining mass back in the cold.
- Using a rolling pin, roll the dough into a thin layer about three to five millimeters thick. Using a glass or a special cutter, cut out circles from the dough. The diameter is nine millimeters. Leave the circles on the working surface and put the rest of the dough back in the refrigerator.
- Start forming the cookies; this needs to be done correctly. Remember, sugar is the filling. Pour sugar onto a flat plate. Take the prepared dough circle and place it on the sugar with the side that touched the countertop down. Use the bottom surface, as it has less flour and the sugar will stick better. Press the dough down well to make more sugar stick.
- Now fold the circle in half. The side with sugar should be on the inside. Press the half-moon of dough into the sugar well.
- Fold the half-moon of dough in half again, the sugar should be in the middle again. Press down to make sure the cookie doesn’t open up. Repeat the same with the remaining dough.
- In the end, we should have such cookie blanks. To make the pastry look more like goose feet, the triangles can be cut using a knife.
- You can also create a pattern with a fork. Both the fork and the knife should be dipped in flour beforehand.
- Place the future cottage cheese cookies "Goose feet" on a baking sheet with a little space between them, as the cookies will increase in size while baking. Place the cookies on the parchment side without sugar. The paper should be brushed with vegetable oil in advance.
- Bake the "goose feet" at t-190°C for twenty to twenty-five minutes. Check readiness with a toothpick or break one piece. This is how the cookies look without cuts.
- And this is how they look with additional decorations using a knife and fork.
- In a short time, a large basket of cookies is ready.
Curd Goose Feet cookies go excellent with milk. They are also perfect for a family tea party. With such homemade pastries, you can visit friends.
