14 August, 2015
Cottage Cheese/Curd Cookies
Cottage Cheese/Curd Cookies
This is one of the traditional recipes made in Lithuania. These cookies are very easy to make and absolutely worth every second spend in the kitchen…
Cinnamon infused, soft in the inside and crunchy on the outside little delights. I twisted the original recipe by adding nutmeg, which for me works beautifully with cinnamon.
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INGREDIENTS:
300g cottage cheese
200g unsalted butter, softened
300g flour
1tsp baking powder
100g caster sugar, vanilla extract
Pinch of salt and nutmeg
Sugar and cinnamon and egg white for coating
METHOD:
Start with blending cottage cheese to the paste, add melted butter and mix well.
Pour flour, sugar, vanilla, salt, nutmeg and baking powder,knead dough. Work the dough well on the worktop slightly dusted with flour until it will all comes together. Rest in the fridge for at least 20-30min( you can leave it in the fridge over night as for preparation in advance).
Dust table with flour and roll out the dough rather thin, up to 3-4mm. Then squeeze the desired size circles (I used a 8cm diameter pastry cutter) but glass or a cup can be used aswell.
Beat egg whites in the bowl, in the plate mix sugar with cinnamon. Take the circle, bend it half, the in half again and squeeze well the corners using drop of egg wash. brush the cookie with egg whites and pop it in the plate with sugar and cinnamon mixture. when plate is full, coat them all by turning all sides in cinnamon and place on the lined baking tray.
Bake for 15-20 minutes at 190’C, Gas mark 5 oven unlit nicely brown.
take out on the wire rack to cool little bit, and enjoy with nice cup of tea 🙂
23 thoughts
I like them a lot 🙂 – never have bake but tried the one my friend made. She made different shape but it’s all about taste 🙂
Now i know the recipe and won’t hesitate to use it 😉 thnx
should you drain the cottage cheese, or add it with the liquid in the container?
It depends on the brand tbh, the one I use doesnt need draining as it’s rather thick texture with no Access liquid.
Drier it will be- less flour you will require 🙂
U x
Hi Christina,
Less liquid the better as you won’t need so much flour 🙂 So after draining cottage cheese throw the liquid away.
Ugne
Do you blend the cottage cheese and butter in a blender or mix it all together in a stand mixer in the first step?
Thank you!
Hi Cat,
First you blend the cottage cheese little bit to break bigger chunks and then mix together with butter in the mixer.
Hope that helps 🙂
Hey Ugne, quick question – the Ingredient list states that the butter should be ‘softened’, but the method says ‘add melted butter’. So should it be softened or melted?
Can’t wait to make these 🙂
Thank you!
Good evening Yelena,
Butter should be soft but not warm 🙂 so it can be either room temperature soft or melted and cooled to room temperature:)
Hope that makes sense ^_^
You will need a workable consistency so can cut the dough with cookie cutter.
And bare in mind that flour quantity may vary depending on type of your curd/ cottage cheese.
Hope you will like them
Ugne
Wonderful, makes perfect sense. Ačiū!
So if you fold the circle in half, it is like the shape of half of a pie. If you fold it in half, wouldn’t it be like the shape of 1/4 of a pie? Can’t visualize the shape you mean. Also you mention pinching corners. Wouldn’t there be just one corner to pinch at the outer corner at the edge where the pastry meets? Watching old GBBO series on Netflix! So talented! Love you!
These look fantastic- are these the ones you made on The Bake-Off that Paul loved?
Hi Amber,
Yes they are 😉
Just found your recipe after watching the show with my daughter. We can’t wait to make them. My grandfather came from Lithuania and my grandmother cooked a lot with farmers cheese and cottage cheese.
Oh that is brilliant! Please let me know how you like them?
If have any questions- I’m always here to advise:)
Just made these tonight and they’re so tasty! My great-grandmother came to the USA From Lithuania and I’m so happy to make and eat this recipe. Not sure I folded right, but they’re delicious little quarter moons 🙂
Thank you for sharing!
I am extremely happy you made those, and most of all- like them 🙂
Ugne x
I am excited to try these! My great-grandparents came from Lithuania. What are they called in Lithuanian?
Thank you for sharing!!
How many cookies does this make? My great-grandparents were from Lithuania. I am in the States; I’ll have to figure out what temperature gas mark 5 is 😃
Hi Mandy,
Thank you for the question, the amount of cookies really depends on how big you make them, roughly, i’de say 30ish 🙂
Hi Ugne! What is the traditional Lithuanian name for these? Just curious 😊
These are called- Varskes sausainiai
What are these cookies called in Lithuanian
They are called ‘Varskes sausainiai’ 🙂