Because I haven’t really liked store-bought cookies in recent months.
I’ve been trying to find alternatives that don’t contain such crap as store-bought ones.
At one such moment of searching, I came across Nigella’s cheese cookie recipe.
They are easy to make. They contain sensible ingredients and are inexpensive to make. Plus they are not time-consuming to make.
The finished quantity makes one (large) plateful of cheese cookies.
You cot ca 35-40 pieces, and in grams they weigh 140 g when finished.
Ingredients:
– 100 g grated cheese (e.g. Cheddar)
– 25 g soft butter
– 50 g flour
– 0.25 tsp baking powder
– A little bit of Italian or pizza seasoning if desired (this is not in the original recipe, but it added a nice nuance to the cookies)
Making cookies:
- Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl.
It is important that the flour and baking powder are mixed together before adding the other ingredients. - Add the butter and cheese to the dry ingredients.
- Knead the dough until smooth, then shape into a ball.
If you have a food processor, simply pour all the ingredients into the food processor and mix until smooth.
If the dough doesn’t hold together well, add water a teaspoon at a time. Don’t add a lot of water at once!
Then:
- Place the dough ball in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
- Roll out the dough on a floured board to about 3 mm thick and cut out small cookies using a cookie cutter.
- Place on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 200 °C for 10-12 minutes.
At the end of the baking time, keep an eye on the cookies to make sure they don’t turn too brown, as this can cause them to become bitter.
Enjoy your cookies! 😊
So I always roll out the dough on baking paper (if possible), so that I can lift the dough directly onto the baking sheet.
The recipe says that you should cut out the cookies using a cookie cutter.
I cut out square/rectangular squares from the dough with a knife.
And I did this after I had lifted the rolled-out dough onto the baking sheet with the baking paper.
NB! If you do the same, be careful when using the knife so that the blade does not go through the paper and scratch the baking sheet!
I baked the cookies too brown—oops!
I have an old but very powerful oven, and when baking with it, you always have to watch the food carefully at the end of the cooking.
I took them out of the oven one minute early (in the ninth minute), but they were already brown.
Fortunately, the cookies didn’t become bitter as a result, but they were simply crispier.
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Krapsakas 
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