Cookies with cottage cheese
Description
Homemade baked goods for tea. This recipe for delicious and tender cheese‑cake cookies is guaranteed to please everyone. It’s very easy to make. The baking is ready. Serve at the table.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients.
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Step 2
Mix the flour, baking powder, and salt.
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Step 3
Beat the softened butter and sugar, then add the egg and beat into a fluffy mixture.
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Step 4
Add ricotta to the dough, 1.5 tbsp lemon juice, fresh or dried lemon zest, vanilla sugar, and beat the mixture.
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Step 5
Add the flour mixture.
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Step 6
Knead the dough using a mixer.
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Step 7
Using a tablespoon or an ice‑cream scoop, place the dough onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
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Step 8
This amount of dough yields 15–16 pieces.
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Step 9
You can smooth the cookie with a wet finger before baking.
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Step 10
Bake the cookies at 180 °C for 15–17 minutes; the cookies should not become too browned, otherwise they will be hard.
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Step 11
Transfer the cookies to a rack, let them cool to room temperature.
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Step 12
While the cookies are cooling, prepare the lemon glaze by mixing powdered sugar with two tablespoons of lemon juice. Add the lemon juice gradually so the glaze does not become runny.
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Step 13
For easier application of the glaze, transfer the cooled cookies back onto a baking sheet, place the sugar glaze in a pastry bag, and pipe a lattice of glaze onto the cookies; the glaze dries fairly quickly.
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Step 14
It turned out soft and very tasty cookies with a piquant lemon tang. Perfect with tea and coffee. It’s best to store such cookies in a closed container so they don’t dry out and remain tender and crumbly.