Glazed curd cheese is one of the most favorite delicacies of modern children. And even many adults enjoy this product with great pleasure. Is it possible not to love this sweetness? A tender curd mass coated with chocolate or caramel melts in our mouth, bringing us real pleasure in taste and aroma. But is this product so good for human health? Is it possible to cook glazed curds at home? The answers to these questions are presented to the readers in this article.
Glazed curd dessert: composition
The nutritional value of cottage cheese sweet cheesecakes per 100 grams of this product is:
- proteins - 8 g;
- carbohydrates - 32.2 g (of which sugar - 24 g);
- fats - 27 g.
The energy value of the product is 396.8 kilocalories. The calorie content of one fifty-gram serving, and in industrial production they produce exactly such cheese by weight, is 198 kilocalories. Is it possible to make glazed curds at home so that their composition is similar to these indicators? Can. You can learn the recipe for making them later in this article.
Glazed homemade cheese: recipe
To fulfill this tasty and healthy delicacy in your kitchen, you must have the grocery set indicated below:
- 700 grams of low fat or low fat cottage cheese;
- 50 milliliters of cream;
- 100 grams of powdered sugar;
- 50 grams of butter;
- 2 chocolate bars of 100 grams each;
- vanillin, cocoa, chopped nuts or coconut to your preference.
So that glazed curd cakes at home work well the first time and bring benefits to all your household, use only fresh dairy products.
Cheese Cooking Guide
Leave the butter at room temperature for half an hour. During this time, it will become soft. Put cottage cheese, powdered sugar, butter and cream in a bowl. Moreover, enter the latter in small portions. Stir the sour-milk sweet mass. It should be thick. If you want to add additional ingredients (vanilla, coconut, etc.), then put them very little so that their smell does not completely interrupt the aroma of cottage cheese. From the resulting mass, blind the curds of the form you want. It can be little bars, and balls, and different figures. You can simply spread the curd on the board and cut out the items with cookie cutters. At this stage of the work, you can perform the filling. For her, use thick jam or boiled condensed milk. Put the curd mass on your palm and flatten it a little. Next, put a small spoonful of the filling on the center of this cake. Carefully slap it in the curd mass. Transfer the prepared curds to the freezer. Next, take up the coating for this treat.
How to make chocolate glazed curds? Glaze recipe is very simple. Melt 200 grams of chocolate in a water bath. Pour each cheese to them and take them back to the refrigerator. Hold the treat there for half an hour. Now you can treat your family members with home-made glazed curd cheese.
Recipe for curd dessert for adults (with cognac)
In order to please your company of friends with an original sweet treat, you need such products for its preparation:
- half a kilogram of cottage cheese;
- 50 g of raisins;
- 100 g yogurt;
- 250 ml cream 30% fat;
- half a large spoon of lemon juice;
- 25 ml of brandy;
- 100 g of sour cream;
- 2 bars of chocolate;
- 120 g of brown sugar;
- vanillin.
It is not difficult to cook glazed curds at home. Combine cottage cheese, yogurt and vanilla in a bowl. Pour raisins with lemon juice and cognac. Whisk cream, sugar and cream separately. Add this mixture and raisins to the bowl where the curd is located. Mix all the components of the dish. Put in the silicone molds the resulting sweet curd mass. Keep the workpiece in the freezer for about 10 hours. Next, insert a toothpick or skewer into each cheese. Melt the chocolate in the microwave or in the water bath. Dip the cheese in it and then put it back in the refrigerator.
When doing this goodies, you can optionally add pieces of your favorite fruit, berries, nuts to it.
The use of glazed curds
Cottage cheese is the main component of cheese. And its benefit is difficult to overestimate. Its use contributes to the enrichment of the body with such valuable macrocells as calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and a trace element - iron. As for vitamins, there are many of them in the curd - A, PP, C, B12 (riboflavin), B1 (thiamine).
Other components found in glazed curds are butter and sour cream, and these are sources of vitamins A and D. The use of these products helps to restore the body’s energy costs.
As for the filling, it can be the most varied in glazed curd cakes: fruits, jam, condensed milk. These ingredients are an additional source of vitamins and beneficial elements.
Can such sweets from cottage cheese harm health?
Like any other sweet product, cheese should be eaten in moderation. Excessive use of this delicacy can lead to dental diseases, namely caries, as well as to malfunctions of the gastrointestinal tract and endocrine system with the subsequent occurrence of diabetes mellitus. Chocolate glaze, which is covered with cheese, can cause allergies in children - this is another reason why you should feed your child with this product under the supervision of adults.