Cottage Cheese Cookies

These cottage cheese cookies are lightly sweet, crisp and crumbly

That recipe was lost and found too many times, but after a dozen of tries, I've finally replicated the original taste and flavor! Cottage cheese cookies were one of my favorite treat from the childhood, it brings back special memories. So I want to share that amazing recipe with you.

Ingredients:

• 200 g (7 oz) small-curd cottage cheese,
• 1 egg,
• 50 g (2 oz) softened, unsalted butter,
• 120 g all-purpose flour (8 oz / 1 cup),
• ¼ tsp salt,
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 1 tbsp vanilla sugar (optional),
• ⅓ cup sugar.

Process:

Preparation:

• preheat the oven to 200º C (375º F),
• line baking sheet with parchment paper.

Dough preparation:

• place egg, cottage cheese, butter, salt and vanilla sugar, if you use it, into a big bowl,
• whisk until blended (with a mixer, use low speed),
  note: do not over mix, as it will cause too much gluten development that will provide unnecessary elasticity to the dough and the cookies will be tough,
• sift the flour and baking powder together (or whisk together flour and baking powder instead of sifting),
• mix the dry ingredients into the bowl,
• stir until everything is incorporated (with a mixer, use low speed).

Cookies:

• For pedants:
  • ball the dough,
  • dust the counter and rolling pin lightly with flour,
  • roll the dough out to about 1/4" of an inch thick,
  • cut circles using glass,
    note: leftover dough can be rolled out again);
  
• If you feel lazy today:
  • use your hands to roll the mixture into small balls,
  • flatten out each dough ball in your hand to about 1/4" of an inch thick;
• pour your sugar into a flat plate,
• dip one side of your cookie into the sugar and gently press to coat it with sugar,
• fold it in half with the sugar on the inside - you'll get semicircle,
• dip one of the folded sides of your cookie in the sugar again,
• fold it in half with the sugar on the inside - you'll get quarter circle,
• dip one of the folded sides of your cookie in the sugar last time,
  note: the sugar will always be on the inside, if you accidentally dip both sides in sugar don’t panic, it will be still yummy,

• place the finished cookies on the baking sheet (sugary side up).

Baking:

• bake for about 15 to 20 minutes, until the cookie turn golden brown,
• once done, remove from the oven and place onto a rack to cool completely.