Irresistible Banana-Shaped Cottage Cheese Cookies

Unusual, beautiful, with a delicate filling — incredibly delicious! Both adults and children will like Banana Cookies with Cottage Cheese due to its taste and its interesting shape, reminiscent of regular bananas. Soft shortbread dough is perfectly complemented by a delicate and aromatic cottage cheese filling. No one will definitely refuse such baked goods!
cook time: 1h
Logan Winslow
Irresistible Banana-Shaped Cottage Cheese Cookies

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

359
Calories
20g
Fat
35g
Carbs
7g
Protein

Ingredients (6 portions)

For dough:

Butter 200 g
Sour cream 200 g
Wheat flour 350 g
Baking powder 1 tsp
Sugar 50 g
Salt 1 g

For filling:

Sugar 100 g
Cottage cheese 200 g
Chicken eggs 1 pc
Vanillin 1 g
Starch 2 tbsp

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make banana cookies with cottage cheese? Prepare the necessary ingredients for the dough. Use sour cream of any fat content. It can be replaced with kefir, but then the cookies will be less soft. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance. Sift the flour, this will make the cookies more tender. Place the softened butter into a deep bowl.

Step 2

Step 2
Add sour cream to the butter and mix everything, preferably with a mixer. If you wish, you can add sugar to the dough if you like sweeter baked goods, and a pinch of salt to balance the taste.

Step 3

Step 3
Add sifted wheat flour mixed with baking powder. Flour must be added in parts, kneading the dough each time. When it becomes difficult to mix with a spoon, start kneading the dough with your hands. Depending on the quality of flour, you may need a little more or a little less. You can read more about flour and its properties in a separate article, link at the end of the recipe.

Step 4

Step 4
However, you don’t need to knead the dough for a long time, otherwise the products will turn out hard. The dough should be soft and not stiff. Wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.

Step 5

Step 5
Prepare the necessary ingredients for the filling. Take natural, high-quality cottage cheese with a high percentage of fat content. With such cottage cheese, baked goods will turn out tastier. For information on how to choose good cottage cheese, read the article at the link at the end of the recipe. Place the cottage cheese in a deep bowl, add sugar, vanillin, starch, and beat in the egg. Vanillin can be replaced with vanilla sugar. Read how to do this correctly in a separate article at the link after the recipe.

Step 6

Step 6
Mix everything thoroughly. It is better to do this using a blender so that the mass is homogeneous in consistency. The filling is ready. Turn the oven on 180 degrees.

Step 7

Step 7
Remove the dough from the refrigerator and divide it into equal walnut-sized pieces.

Step 8

Step 8
On a flour-dusted work surface, roll out each piece of dough into an oval no more than 0.3 cm thick. Place the curd filling in the center.

Step 9

Step 9
Seal the edges of the dough together like a pie, then turn the dough over, seam side down, and shape the cookie into a banana shape. Form cookies in this way from the remaining pieces of dough.

Step 10

Step 10
Bake the cookies on a baking sheet, you can cover it with parchment if desired, and bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 30 minutes. The exact time depends on your oven. You can learn about the operating features of ovens by reading a separate article, link at the end of the recipe. The cookies should brown slightly.

Step 11

Step 11
Serve cookies with tea, coffee or milk. Bon appetit!

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