Biezpien Maizîtes

== Description ==
Latvian-style cheese danish
==Ingredients==
* 1 cup milk
* 2½ cups flour
* 1 package (1 tbsp) yeast
* 5 tbsp butter
* 5 tbsp sugar
* ½ tsp salt
* 2 lbs (dry) cottage cheese
* raisins (to taste)
* 10 tbsp. sugar
* 1 package Oetker's vanilla sugar
* 1 package Oetker's vanilla pudding powder
* juice of half a lemon
* 2 eggs, separated
==Directions==
=== Dough ===
# Put milk in saucepan and heat until bubbles start to form.
# Let it cool until lukewarm.
# Then add one tbsp sugar, yeast, and let stand about 10 minutes.
# Add enough flour to make a soft dough.
# Let this rise for 20 minutes.
# cream butter, add sugar and salt.
# When dough has risen (for the 20 minutes) add the butter mixture, and remaining flour.
# Let rise for about one hour.
=== Filling ===
# Beat cottage cheese with a fork (or run through a Cuisinart-type food processor) to break up the lumps.
# Add sugar, vanilla sugar, pudding powder, lemon juice, egg yolks, and raisins.
# Beat well.
# Whip egg whites and fold into cottage cheese mixture.
=== Pastries ===
# Preheat oven to 325°F.
# Roll out batter onto a cookie sheet, and spread with filling.
# Alternately: make a number of small, Danish-style pastries and spoon filling into centre of each one.
# Bake for 30 – 50 minutes.
# Put on a rack to cool.
# If made in a sheet, cut only when cooled.
# This has fewer calories than a traditional cheese danish, but tastes just as good, if not better!.
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Category:Pastry Recipes