
Cottage cheese cookies
Description
The recipe won’t take much time. Housewives, quickly add this cottage‑cheese cookie recipe “Hearts” to your “savings jar”. It’s a beautiful, tasty and very simple baked good made from cottage cheese. Moreover, it often happens that the purchased cottage cheese isn’t good enough, then you can make such cookies. The step‑by‑step instructions detail how to prepare it. Serve cooled or slightly warm.
Instructions
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Step 1

Prepare the ingredients.
- 2
Step 2

To improve the texture of the cottage cheese, pass it through a sieve.
- 3
Step 3

Add the egg, softened butter, lemon zest, and vanilla sugar to the cottage cheese, and mix.
- 4
Step 4

Add 3 tbsp of sugar to the total amount.
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Step 5

Mix the flour, salt, baking soda, vanilla sugar.
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Step 6

Add the flour mixture to the cottage cheese mixture, knead the dough, divide the ready dough into two parts, and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
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Step 7

Roll out half of the dough into a sheet about 1 cm thick, measuring 20 × 30 cm.
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Step 8

Roll the ends of the dough toward the center.
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Step 9

Cut the dough into pieces, shape them into hearts, dip them in sugar.
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Step 10

Place the cookies on a baking sheet, leaving a small distance between them. During baking, the cookies expand slightly.
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Step 11

Bake the cookies in the oven at 190 °C for 20 minutes.
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Step 12

The cottage cheese cookies "Hearts" turned out beautiful and tasty. They go perfectly with tea and coffee.