Cottage cheese pastries are an easy alternative to biscuits.

The culture of Russian tea drinking involves a wide choice of all kinds of flour products. Bagels, sugar pretzels, vanilla crisps, bread with poppy seeds. To tea in Russia all these delicacies were served in huge quantities. Today, these traditions are largely preserved. Are you going to have coffee with your friends or invited your friends for a cup of fragrant tea? Without delicious cakes and pastries here can not do. In this case, cottage cheese pastries will be an excellent substitute for yeast pies or biscuits. In addition, preparing such dishes is much easier and faster. We offer you several delicious and simple recipes that will certainly help the hostess to come to the guests.

Cookies "Tenderness".

This original and light curd pastry will please not only children, but also those who carefully watches their weight.

For the preparation of cookies, you will need to pack a 250 g cottage cheese, a batch of margarine for baking or butter, 2 cups of wheat flour, a half sugar sugar sand, a sachet of vanilla sugar.

Margarine is ground until a soft plastic mass is obtained, we add flour, vanilla, and cottage cheese to it. We knead the dough and put it on the cold for 30 minutes.
After this, the dough is rolled into a layer no more than a centimeter thick and cut out a circle with a glass. Each oil is refined with vegetable oil, sprinkled with sugar, and stacked four times. Bake cookies until golden in the oven heated to 200 degrees.

Based on this test, you can prepare bagels with confiture, poppy seeds, raisins or dried apricots. For this, the rolled dough is cut into ribbons with a width of 2 to 3 centimeters, lay out the filling on them and wrap them in a spiral.

"Cherry pie with cottage cheese".

Fragrant curd pastry with berries is especially good for coffee and tea. It can be prepared from any frozen or fresh berries. In our case, 250 g of frozen cherries are required. In addition to berries you will need butter - 70 grams, sugar sand - 100 grams, half a lemon, eggs - 2 pcs, croup of semolina 2 liters. , Half the sachet of vanilla sugar and baking powder for the dough (can be replaced with soda), a bag of semi-finished vanilla pudding, powdered sugar 2 liters. 500g of cottage cheese of zero fat content.

To cottage cheese baking did not turn out to be too wet, it is necessary to defrost the berries and drain any excess liquid.
Softened butter is ground with white sugar and a half of sugar, vanillin and juice from half a lemon. We also drive egg yolks here.
Separately connect the croup of semolina, pudding and baking powder. Add to the oil mixture and again whisk thoroughly.
We carefully beat whites and remaining sugar into a thick foam, combine it with cottage cheese and add the mass to the dough. Gently add cherries and distribute evenly. Spread out in a form greased with cooking oil or margarine, and put in a preheated oven for one hour. To the top layer of the pie is not burned, cover it with foil after 30 minutes.

If you want to bake well from the cottage cheese dough , try not to open the oven in the first half hour.

The curd is light.

To prepare this appetizing casserole, you use the finished curd mass with the addition of dried apricots or raisins. The only condition for a good meal is a good oven. Otherwise, baking from the curd mass does not require any special skills in cooking, or even the purchase of additional products. After all, the finished product already contains oil, sugar, dried fruits. You just have to add half a bag of baking powder, one egg and 2 tbsp. L. Semolina in terms of a pack of curd mass. As a rule, a pack of cottage cheese is taken for one ready portion. If you like a more flavorful dough, you can add candied fruit to the curd mixture.

Lubricate the oil form, distribute the even layer of dough and put in the oven for 50 minutes. We bake at 200 degrees. After this time, the form is taken out and the surface of the curd is closed with foil. Put the dish in the oven for another 20 minutes, after which we cool and cut into portions.
Bon Appetit!