Christmas cookies "Stollenki" - holiday recipe

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• deep dishes (4 pcs.).
• knife;
• cutting board;
• a baking sheet;
• grater;
• mixer;
• spoon;
• rolling pin;
• parchment paper;
• brush for greasing cookies.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Filling

1. Steam 150 g of raisins with boiling water for 5-10 minutes, then rinse it well. In a bowl with raisins, add 4 tbsp. l orange juice and mix. Leave on for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally so that the juice is completely absorbed.
   
2. Pour 50 g of almonds with boiling water for 3 minutes.
   
3. Then drain the water, rinse the almonds and remove the peel (almonds can be replaced with other nuts).
   
4. Dry the nuts with a towel or dry cloth and chop finely with a knife.
   
5. Then add them to the raisins and mix.
   

Dough

1. Mix 75 g of sugar with the zest of half an orange (grate the zest on a grater or chop finely).
   
2. In a separate bowl, whip 100 g of butter (whisk until the butter becomes light and lush - 3-4 minutes).
   
3. Add sugar with zest and 8 g of vanilla sugar to the whipped butter. Beat again with a mixer.
   
4. Add 150 g of pureed cottage cheese to the butter with sugar in portions, continuing to beat for 1-2 minutes.
   
5. Add to your raisin filling 30 g flour (1 tbsp. L.) And pour it into a bowl with the resulting whipped mass. Shuffle.
   
6. In a separate plate or bowl, mix 270 g of flour with 2 tsp. baking powder.
   
7. Add flour with baking powder to the mass prepared before this, and knead the dough. You can knead the dough with your hands, it should turn out soft, thick and not stick.
   

Baking cookies

1. Turn on the oven 200 degrees. While the oven is warming up, roll the dough into a layer (about 1 cm thick), if the dough sticks when rolling - sprinkle it a little with flour.
   
2. Divide the resulting dough cake with a knife into small squares (3 by 3 cm), making strips of dough first vertically and then horizontally. It should turn out about 45 pieces.
   
3. Cover the pan with parchment paper and transfer cookies to it. Make sure that the cookies do not stick together and are at a distance of 1.5-2 cm from each other. If the cookie does not fit on your pan, then you can bake it in two batches.
   
4. In a preheated oven, place a baking tray with cookies for 20-25 minutes, until golden brown.
   
5. Let the cookies cool for a couple of minutes.
   
6. Melt in a saucepan 35 g butter and grease the top of the cookies with it.
   
7. Oiled cookies sprinkle with powdered sugar (50 g). Before use, cookies should be infused for 3 days. Such cookies are stored for 3 weeks.
   

Video recipe

In the video you will see how to knead and roll out the dough for cookies, and also understand how to quickly cut the "Shtollenki" into even squares. You can see the approximate thickness of the cookies and the final result of the preparation, not only from the outside, but also in section.

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