How to learn how to cook delicious shortbread cookies with cottage cheese

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• deep container for mixing ingredients;
• fork;
• kitchen knife;
• flat surface for kneading dough;
• sieve for sifting flour;
• a wooden or silicone kitchen spoon or spatula;
• bag or cling film - by consumption;
• kitchen rolling pin;
• cookie extrusion molds (can be replaced with a glass, cup, etc.);
• flat plate or saucer;
• oven;
• a baking sheet;
• parchment paper in the size of a baking sheet;
• serving dish.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Cooking dough

1. We take in advance the butter (250 g) from the refrigerator so that it softens.
   
2. Put 350 g of cottage cheese in a deep bowl to knead the ingredients. If you have cottage cheese with liquid, squeeze it through a sieve and cheesecloth, it should be dry. Knead the cottage cheese with a fork.
   
3. Cut the softened butter into cubes, send it to the cottage cheese.
   
4. Mix it with a fork with cottage cheese until smooth. Instead of a fork, you can use a mixer or a blender with a whisk.
   
5. Add vanilla to the cottage cheese to taste (it can be an extract, vanilla sugar, etc.), mix.
   
6. Sift through a sieve 400 g of flour with 1 tsp. baking powder.
   
7. In a hill of flour we make a hole and send cottage cheese to it.
   
8. Gently mix the cottage cheese and flour until smooth. The result should be a slightly crumbly crumb.
   
9. We collect the resulting mass and sculpt into one large lump. Due to the friability of the test, the process may take some time (5-7 minutes).
   
10. Wrap the dough with cling film or put in a bag, send it to the refrigerator for 1-1.5 hours.
    

Cooking Cookies

1. Cover the baking sheet from the oven with parchment paper. Turn on the oven to warm up to 180 degrees.
   
2. We take out the dough from the refrigerator, unfold, spread on a flat surface, slightly knead. Next, the dough can be cut into 2-3 parts. Since there are quite a lot of cookies from this amount of dough, some of the dough can be frozen in the freezer for future use.
   
3. Roll out a rolling pin on a flat surface 1/4 of the total amount of dough to a thickness of 5-7 mm.
   
4. From the rolled out dough we cut out the future cookies with the help of extrusion molds (or a glass, cup, etc.). Raise the remainder of the dough, while cookies remain on the surface. The remainder is mixed in the bulk of the dough.
   
5. Pour some sugar into a flat plate. Squeezed cookie dipped in sugar on one side.
   
6. Fold on a baking sheet with powder up. When baking, cookies significantly increase in size, so you need to spread it at a certain distance from each other.
   
7. Put the pan in the preheated oven for 20 minutes. Then we take out the finished cookies, let it cool completely, put it with a spatula on a serving dish.
   

Such cookies are very tasty with milk, good for tea, coffee or cocoa. Enjoy your meal!

Video recipe

From the video you can find additional and useful information about the nuances of kneading dough, baking cottage cheese cookies, ways to create its shape and some other subtleties of cooking.