Cottage Cheese Kolacky
 
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 3 dozen
Ingredients
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup butter, chilled and cut up in tablespoon amounts
  • 1 cup (8 oz) cottage cheese, small curd
  • 1 can Fruit Flavor filling (I used Poppyseed – my absolute favorite!)
  • 2 egg whites, beaten
  • Powdered Sugar
Instructions
  1. In a standup mixer, using your dough hook, mix butter and flour together. If you don’t have a standup mixer, you can use a pastry blender and cut butter into flour as you would for a pie crust.
  2. Add cottage cheese, mixing lightly just until dough is combined and holds together.
  3. Divide dough into 2-3 equal portions; wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for several hours to overnight.
  4. Pre-heat oven 375 degrees.
  5. On a lightly floured board, roll out one portion of dough to ⅛-inch thickness.
  6. With a pizza cutter, cut dough into 2½ inch squares.
  7. Place 1 teaspoon of fruit filling in the center of each square.
  8. For Pinwheel shape: Cut a ½ inch slit diagonally on each corner of the square. Place 1 teaspoon of fruit filling in the center of each square. Bring every other corner to the center and press together; seal with egg white. Press into filling.
  9. For traditional kolacky shape: Place 1 teaspoon of fruit filling in the center of each square. Bring two opposite corners of dough together, folding one over the other to seal. Pinch and rub a little egg white to help secure the seal.
  10. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet (or lined with parchment paper) for 17-20 minutes or until lightly browned.
  11. Cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before cooling completely on a wire rack.
  12. Dust with powdered sugar prior to serving.
  13. Store in an airtight container.
Recipe by Sweet Dash of Sass at http://sweetdashofsass.com/2013/12/cottage-cheese-kolacky/