One of the most beloved and common recipes for baking curd products is curd cookies "Triangles" or "Crow's feet." They impress with their delicate creamy taste. It is impossible to describe their structure. Being fragile puff corners, they are at the same time soft inside and just melt in your mouth. What could be more pleasant than family gatherings with tea or cocoa, and even with fragrant homemade cookies? Triangles curd cookies are readily eaten even by those who absolutely do not like cottage cheese. Many can’t understand its composition, so you can make it your little secret. To prepare the triangles curd cookies, you don’t even have to write down the recipe. It is so simple that if you make them once, you will not forget. How to cook triangles curd cookies?
What attracts this baking?
One of the main advantages of cottage cheese cookies is that you can change some of the ingredients. Many in our time are worried about their figure, so they try to exclude foods containing a large amount of fat from the diet as much as possible. So, an interesting fact is that the calorie content of the Triangles cheesecake can be adjusted according to your preferences. You can take cottage cheese of any fat content, or you can even replace it with curd mass.
Many people recommend the mass when baking cottage cheese triangles "Triangles" for children. After all, it has a more delicate and uniform structure. You can replace the butter with a spread, which, being a product of vegetable fats, is less high-calorie than butter, but this will not affect the taste and beauty of the Triangles curd cookies.
Ingredients for the dough, cooking
You will need:
- cottage cheese - 200 g;
- butter - 180 g;
- vanillin on the tip of a knife or a few drops of vanilla extract;
- half a glass of granulated sugar;
- one teaspoon of baking powder for dough or a quarter teaspoon of baking soda, extinguished with lemon juice or vinegar;
- flour - about 300-400.
Pound the butter (or spread) with cottage cheese and sugar. Add baking powder (soda), vanillin, mix. Leave on for fifteen minutes.
When the curd dissolves the sugar, a little liquid will appear, just at that moment gently introduce the flour, it needs so much so that you can knead a light dough.
Variety of curd cookies "Triangles"
In addition to the calorie content of cookies, you can change it a little, showing ingenuity and imagination. Cottage cheese cookies "Triangles" with sugar is a classic option, in which you can add your own notes depending on taste preferences. You can mix granulated sugar with poppy seeds, then you get a new dish, but no worse.
More about the pros
The fact is that the Triangles curd cookies cook very quickly. Therefore, if everything does not fit on one baking sheet, you can immediately prepare a second one. Due to the fact that it rises and grows in size only when baking, nothing will happen to the cookies on the second baking sheet while the first is cooking.
The big plus is that the minimum amount of food is required, and basically those that are usually found in the refrigerator of every hostess. The calorie content of baking averages 315 kcal per 100 g, but, as noted earlier, it can be adjusted.
You can also adjust the degree of softness of this cookie. If the dough is rolled thinner, it will be more crispy and crumbly; if not rolled thinly, it will be more tender and airy.
How to choose cottage cheese for homemade cookies?
Cottage cheese for cookies is selected according to personal preference. Here are some suggestions:
- It can be fat home-made cottage cheese, cookies with it will be more fat, heavy and with a pronounced creamy taste.
- You can take granular cottage cheese. With it, a friable texture will be felt in cookies, and grains will please lovers of cottage cheese.
- If you want to treat such a bakery to the choosiness of, for example, a child who categorically refuses to use cottage cheese, then it is better to take a soft creamy curd mass as the basis. Your child will enjoy a healthy product with pleasure, not suspecting it.
Cooking Dough for Goose Feet Cookies
The triangles cottage cheese cookies recipe is quite simple, but having its own subtleties, looking ahead, we’ll tell you that the oil must be very chilled, you can even get a little frostbitten. It will not need to be drowned or softened in advance, we will rub it on a grater or cut it with a knife, and for this it must be solid.
Do not forget to put the finished dough before forming triangles in a plastic bag or cling film and cool in the refrigerator. Otherwise, everything is simple:
- We take prepared chilled butter or spread, rub it on a coarse grater, you can chop or cut it with a wide sharp knife. At the same time, do not forget about the safety of your hands, a sharp knife can slip oily, so at this stage be more careful than rushing.
- We spread the desired portion of cottage cheese in a bowl to the crushed butter and carefully grind the mixture to a homogeneous mass.
- Add baking powder and vanillin. As mentioned earlier, you can replace the baking powder with slaked baking soda.
- We begin to gradually add the flour, thoroughly mixing the dough. First you need to do this with a spoon or a wooden spatula, since the dough at the initial stage is very sticky and lovers of kneading with their hands risk leaving it on their fingers. Add the flour until a fairly thick dough is formed, after which, sprinkling flour on the working surface, you can knead it with your hands until it stops sticking to your hands and becomes malleable, it will be easy to maintain shape.
- Wrap our dough with cling film or a plastic bag and send it to the refrigerator, let it rest for about 30 minutes.
We make cookies "Triangles"
We take out the finished and sufficiently cooled in the refrigerator (not in the freezer) dough from the film, soften it with our hands to a malleable state.
For convenience, we divide it into two or three equal parts. Roll each part with a rolling pin to a thickness of four to five millimeters. Do not forget to sprinkle the work surface and the rolling pin in advance with flour so that the dough does not stick.
Prepare a baking tray in advance. It can be greased slightly with odorless vegetable oil (or grated with butter) or laid out on it with parchment paper. The advantage of the paper is that with its help it will be more reliable to protect the pan from accidental ingestion and further burning of sugar, which not only smells bad when burned, but also is quite difficult to launder.
Now you need to cut out even circles from the finished dough layer, about 7-10 centimeters in diameter. To do this, you can use a special molding ring or the throat of a glass, turned upside down and dipped in flour. It is difficult to overdo it in the Triangles curd cookies with sugar. You need to pour sand in a convenient bowl, then carefully dipped each circle-blank in this sugar. You can gently press (as if squeezing the dough into sugar) so that it sticks more. You can’t spoil the cookies with this.
Now we fold our sugar cakes in half again in half, that is, four times. We spread our billets on the prepared baking sheet, do not forget to leave a place between them, because the "Crow's feet" decently increase in size.
We put in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 20-30 minutes. But in the process of baking, do not forget to look at the cookies, because it quickly reaches readiness and is browned. With a golden color, baking is ready.
Cons cottage cheese cookies "crow's feet"
Do not do without the disadvantages of the recipe. The main and only minus of this cookie is that it is eaten very quickly and you want it again and again, so the hostess will have to consistently cook such a treat to satisfy the appetite of her family! But to make such a dish is very simple, it does not take much time to create it. Yes, and the recipe is not difficult, and the products that make up the cookies are in the kitchen of every hostess. Enjoy your meal!