Cookies with cheese are a simple treat, which is suitable as a quick snack at a picnic or at home. It can also be used as a snack for low alcohol drinks. The taste and structure of cookies is similar to puff pastries.
What should be the cheese?
Everyone can make cookies with cheese. However, when choosing the main component, you should be careful. Indeed, the quality of cheese depends on the taste of baking. Therefore, when choosing a product, you should pay attention to the fact that:
- When choosing, do not confuse processed cheese with a cheese product. The latter in its composition has more plant components. For cookies, it is processed cheese that is required.
- The shelf life of a quality product does not exceed 7 months.
- Good cream cheese should contain cream, cottage cheese, hard cheese, skim milk and sour cream. In addition, the product can contain melting salts, which help evenly dissolve fats and proteins. It is worth buying a product without additives in the form of flavors, preservatives and colorings.
- Appearance is also important. Cream cheese should have a uniform consistency, creamy creamy taste and uniform color. In this case, the product should not crumble or stick to the hands.
Cream Cheese Cookies: Classic Recipe
To prepare goodies you will need:
- creamy margarine - 250 grams;
- processed cheese - two packs;
- sugar or powder - 100 grams;
- flour - 1 cup.
The oven should be preheated in advance (approximately 200 ° C). Margarine should be slightly frozen before preparing the dough. Otherwise, it will be difficult to grind.
To prepare the dough, grate the processed cheese and margarine on a coarse grater. Sugar and flour should be added to the mass. Finally, all components must be mixed until a homogeneous dough is obtained.
The mass must be rolled into a layer with a thickness of not more than 1 centimeter. Using molds, you can cut from the dough workpieces of any shape. Future cookies should be laid out on a baking sheet, previously covered with parchment paper, and then placed in the oven. After 15 minutes, the treat will be ready. Such cheese cookies can be decorated with marmalade slices.
Hard and Cream Cheese Cookies
To prepare such a treat, it is worth preparing in advance:
- 2 packs of processed cheese;
- 70 grams of hard cheese;
- 100 grams of cream-based butter;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 ½ cup flour;
- 1 ½ teaspoon of baking powder;
- 2 large spoons of sesame seeds;
- a pinch of salt.
Cooking steps
To prepare cookies with cheese, the photo of which is presented above, you need to rub hard and cream cheese on a coarse grater. The oil should be pre-frozen, but not much. After this, the product is also worth grinding with a grater.
Beat eggs separately with a pinch of salt. The resulting composition must be added to the mixture of cheeses and butter. It is also necessary to introduce flour combined with a baking powder, and then knead a steep dough. At this stage, you should hurry up so that the oil does not melt.
Ready dough needs to be rolled into a layer. Its thickness should be no more than half a centimeter. Cookies (of any shape) are cut out of it. Workpieces should be greased with a beaten egg, and then sprinkled with sesame seeds. Cookies with cheese should be put on a baking sheet and placed in the oven. Bake it at 190 ° C for 20 minutes.
Cookies with cheese: a recipe in a pan
To prepare such a treat you will need a standard set of products:
- processed cheese, for example, "Friendship", "Orbit" - 1 package;
- 1 egg
- sugar - half a glass;
- flour - one glass;
- soda - 1/3 teaspoon;
- vinegar;
- vegetable-based oil - for frying.
How to cook?
To make such a dough with cream cheese, you must prepare the products in advance. The process takes a little time. Cream cheese is ground with a fork. To it you need to add soda, quenched with vinegar, sugar, egg, flour. Of the products knead the dough, not tight, but quite elastic. It should not stick to the table and hands.
The dough must be rolled into a layer, a thickness of not more than half a centimeter. Cookies are cut out of it. The pan should be preheated beforehand. Oil should be drained into it. When it is heated, you need to lay out the blanks in one layer and fry them on both sides until a brown crust appears. At the end, you can sprinkle the finished cookies with powdered sugar.
With ginger, coconut and dates
To make such an unusual cookie with cream cheese, you will need:
- flour - 200 g;
- butter-based butter - 8 tablespoons;
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
- salt - a pinch;
- cream cheese - 100 g;
- sugar - 6 tablespoons;
- vanillin - 1 teaspoon;
- chopped dates - 100 g;
- coconut flakes - 100 g;
- dried ginger - 1 teaspoon.
Cooking process
Flour should be mixed with salt and baking powder. In a separate container, beat sugar, cream cheese and butter until a homogeneous white mass is formed. Vanillin is also worth adding here, and then mix everything well. In the liquid component of the dough you need to enter a mixture of dry ingredients, as well as dates, ginger and coconut pulp. The mass should be mixed well. The result should be a homogeneous dough.
How to bake?
Such cookies are baked on a baking sheet previously covered with parchment paper or foil. You can spread the dough with an ordinary tablespoon. The distance between the cookies should be at least 5 centimeters. Such a treat should be baked in a preheated oven to 175 ° C. You can determine the readiness of cookies by its color. The delicacy should acquire a light brown tint. About 25 cookies are obtained from the indicated number of components.
In conclusion
Cream cheese is a unique product on the basis of which you can cook both saltine crackers and sweet cookies. In any case, it turns out a very tasty treat. The choice of such products is quite large, so when buying processed cheese, you should carefully study the label. Of particular importance is the composition of the product. If it does not have components of animal origin, then you should not buy it. Such processed cheese will spoil the taste of cookies and its appearance.
It is worth noting that this product can be used not only for the preparation of cookies, but also for the manufacture of cream, which is suitable for decorating cakes, pastries and cakes.