After making these cookies, I'm not sure how well cottage cheese translates into dough. You see, this dough was high maintenance for me, to say the least. It required coaxing and pleading. It didn't want to be too hot (it would disintegrate in my hands), and it didn't want to be too cold (it would crack when I tried to fill it). I strained and drained the cottage cheese ahead of time, but this dough was SO VERY STICKY. It just seemed to fall apart on me . . . and nothing I did really seemed to fix that. I filled 1/3 with apricot preserves, 1/3 with raspberry preserves, and 1/3 with a dollop of peanut butter and some chocolate chips. The peanut butter chocolate pufflets were the only cookies that actually "puffed;" the cookies with the preserves seemed to deflate.
The sticky, high maintenance dough is actually delicious, and I loved the taste of these cookies fresh from the oven. My favorite flavor was the raspberry jam, but Dudley was inordinately fond of the chocolate and peanut butter combination. Will I make these again? It's definitely possible. They're so tasty fresh from the oven that I'd be very much inclined to try to make a batch and freeze them for emergency dessert purposes. I love the versatility of the filling options, and it seems like it's very easy to make something for everyone with this dessert. Thanks, Jacque, for this week's fun pick. If you'd like to look at the recipe yourself, you can find it here, on her blog.
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Ciao ! i love how you used a cutter even with these hard dough !
The sticky, high maintenance dough is actually delicious, and I loved the taste of these cookies fresh from the oven. DITTO to that!
I loved this recipe too but I had a time with the dough and putting the filling on and trying to seal them was a mess! They tasted so good though! Your's look really good.
Ha - I had the EXACT SAME EXPERIENCE!!! I actually feel so much better knowing that perhaps it wasn't me! And I too loved how they tasted!!
These cookies were delicious. Too bad the dough was such a pain to work with. Your pufflets look fantastic.
Yours look so dainty and polished...the problems you had sure don't show! I totally agree on all counts (well, I didn't try peanut butter and chocolate but that's delicious by default!) I think I'll make these again in the winter, not on a 95 degree day. And I'll definitely try them with PB&C.
I love the versatility of these, too. I just used sour cherry jam, which was quite tasty in them, but I was thinking about all other kinds of fillings that would be good. Most of them had chocolate, though, so I stuck with the jam for my son's sake. As far as jam-filled cookies go, I prefer rugelach, but these were quite tasty.
Oh it was sticky, but it looks like you had it under control. Keeping them in the freezer for an emergency dessert is a great idea.
I like cottage cheese too! I think you're the first person I've found so far that hasn't said something bad about it.
I used organic valley full fat :)
the dough was pretty tasty, but awful fussy. Not something to fix quickly from scratch.
Your pufflets look perfect. And delicious.
Thanks for coming by for a visit.
My dough also got too warm, then too cold, then too warm again. Even though it cracked and looked like a mess going into the oven, they somehow emerged looking pretty good. And they taste great!
I'm glad that after all the maintenance work required by these cookies that you liked them in the end! I was glad that the cottage cheese flavor "disappeared"!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who actually likes cottage cheese! Your temperamental dough turned into some gorgeous pufflets. How did you get yours to hold the fluted edges? Mine just turned to blobs!
Looks like all your hard worked paid off. They look great...I especially like the edging.
Your pufflets looks fantastic!
Those look great! Maybe it's the moisture or something in the jam that made it deflate? Just guessing...
Also, I love cottage cheese too! I know it sounds strange, but cheese-its dipped in cottage cheese are remarkable addictive....
Yummm! These look really yummy!
these were tasty, ableit quite fussy. yours look great!
Ooh, sorry you had troubles. It's interesting to hear the dough was still difficult after draining the cottage cheese.
They do look wonderfully light and fluffy though.
Thanks for baking along this week :)
I will post the recipe for the pizza and oreos today..i was just to lazy to do it yesterday!
These look light and they are beauties.
Okay, you win, you are the first person I heard actually say that you might make these again! And, no wonder, as yours look puffy and nice and delicious.
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