Step 1: take the puff pastry.
For puff pastry "Ears" we take ready puff pastry . If you have free time and desire, you can do it yourself. But if you have tried to cook it at home at least once, you will agree that it is a little difficult. Although the recipe is quite simple, the cooking process itself is long and laborious. When choosing puff pastry, inspect the packaging - this is its only protection, so be sure to check its tightness; if the package has even a small hole, do not take such a product. Such puff pastry has most likely already lost its properties.Step 2: Roll out the puff pastry.
Take the dough and roll it out with a rolling pin into a thin layer, approximately 5 mm, on cutting board, lubricated vegetable oil(so that the dough does not stick to the board). Then sprinkle the entire layer of dough granulated sugar and cinnamon. We twist one side of the layer into a roll with our hands, to the middle, then we twist the second side in the same way. Gently press both twisted rolls against each other. Step 3: cut the dough.
Using a knife, cut the resulting roll into strips about 1-1.5 cm. Then line the baking sheet parchment paper so that the cookies do not burn due to the sugar that will flow out when heated. Step 4: bake puff pastry.
Place the “ears” on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes at a temperature 180 degrees before golden color. Puff pastry "Ears" is ready! Step 5: serve the puff pastry "Ears".
Place the cookies on a plate and serve crispy and tasty “Ears” with tea or coffee. Bon appetit! If you add a little sugar and butter between layers when making puff pastry, you will improve the taste of the cookies. If you don't like caramel crust, sprinkle ready-made cookies powdered sugar through a strainer or put a piece of jam or marmalade on each.
It is not recommended to grease the baking tray on which puff pastry products are baked, just rinse it cold water.
Baking made from puff pastry turns out tasty and crispy if the dough is fresh, due to long-term storage The dough may have an unpleasant taste.
If, when baking puff pastry products, you cut the rolled out layer into rectangular pieces with a knife, then there will be no scraps left, which roll out very poorly the second time.
Puff pastry should only be cut with a sharp knife or pastry cutter. Since a dull knife flattens the edges of the dough, this causes the dough to separate poorly when baking.
If you do not open the oven during the first 5 - 7 minutes of baking, the puff pastry will increase in volume by 6 - 8 times.
Cookies "Ears" are one of the most famous homemade cookies. However, one name hides several absolutely different dishes. In addition to the name that unites them, they have individual ones: “Crow’s feet” or “Triangles”, “Puff ears”, “ Bear ears"or "Calla lilies" or " Pig ears”, and, for dessert, interesting in embodiment cookies “Aman's Ears”. In this article we will tell you about the methods for preparing all these delicacies.
Classic cookies “Ears” made from cottage cheese
Cookies "Ears" are often called " crow's feet"or cookies "Triangles". But in any of the three options you get a simple, easy-to-prepare delicacy. The main conditions are the combination of a soft structure and a crispy crust with a sprinkle of sugar in one dish.
Prepare the following ingredients for mixing the cookie dough:
- 450 g cottage cheese;
- 225 g butter or spread;
- 345 g flour;
- 3.5 g baking powder;
- a bag of vanillin or 10 g of vanilla sugar;
- a pinch of salt;
- sugar for rolling cookies.
Approximate calorie content ready-made dish: 350 kcal.
Total cooking time: 80 minutes.
Let’s start preparing the dough for the curd cookies “Ears”:
- Cottage cheese and butter - grind with a fork until smooth and creamy. Which cottage cheese should I choose? Let's be honest: there are no exact indications of the fat content of the product. However, it is worth considering that the higher the fat content of the cottage cheese, the more the calorie content of the dish increases. And vice versa - low-fat cottage cheese makes cookies closer to dietary dishes.
- All bulk products, combine everything except sugar in a separate bowl. Is the amount of flour indicated in the ingredients list accurate? This question is quite difficult to answer: it all depends on the flour that is available. Most often, recipes are based on the mass of flour from durum varieties wheat. Therefore, each brand and manufacturer will have its own mass fraction flour in every recipe. Focus on your feelings and everything will work out.
- Mix the butter-curd and bulk mixtures. Do not delay - after all, oil tends to flow, which means that more flour may be required.
- It should be slightly sticky and very soft dough. To ensure that it rolls out well and does not stick to the surface, sprinkle the table with flour. We also pre-divide the dough into 2 or 3 parts - this will make the rolling process easier. In this case, we store the parts that are not involved in the process in the refrigerator.
- From a rolled out sheet of dough no more than 0.5 cm thick with a mug or special round shape cut out future cookies.
- You may have noticed that the sugar is missing from the recipe. This is not entirely true: we will use it to sprinkle circles of dough. It is convenient to do this by simply pouring sugar into a plate and rolling the dough circles on each side, gradually folding in half until a triangle is formed.
- Place the resulting quarters on a sheet of parchment and place in the oven for 10-20 minutes at 180°C.
This one is amazing easy recipe, for some reason many people don’t remember. And it's strange. After all, more simple way cook delicious fragrant pastries and, most importantly, crispy, probably not. Everything you need for classic recipe puff “ears” - a package of dough, a glass of sugar and 30 minutes of time. Try making it in the evening after work or waking up your family on Saturday with the delicious smell of fresh baked goods. Your household will eat it faster than you cook it.
Puff pastry “ears” - recipe
If you are a fan of making dough yourself and are categorically against a purchased product, for fear harmful additives in the form of palm or coconut oil, That this recipe just for you. “Ears” from puff pastry are very easy to prepare, and the dough itself is kneaded quickly. In the very simple recipe puff "ears" only use sugar for sprinkling, but you can add vanilla, cinnamon, different kinds nuts, sesame, poppy seeds. You can mix several types of filling - it’s a matter of your taste and preference.
Ingredients:
- flour – 0.5 kg;
- water – 250 g;
- butter – 300 g;
- sugar – 200 g;
- salt – 10 g;
- vanilla - to taste.
Preparation
For the dough, mix the melted butter with flour, salt and water. Knead it well, then roll it out on the table to form a rectangle. Sprinkle the cake with sugar and vanilla, then roll it up from both ends towards the center. From the resulting dough, cut “ears” 1-1.5 cm thick, place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment and bake for about 20 minutes in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, until our pastries are browned. Place the puff pastry “ears” on a plate and sprinkle with sugar.
“Ears” made of puff pastry without yeast with nuts
Today, ready-made puff pastry can be bought in any store. So, on the way home, you can run to the supermarket, buy a package and quickly prepare “ears” from puff pastry at home. It will take very little time, and the family will enjoy a friendly tea party with delicious pastries. If the package of dough is already in your freezer and waiting in the wings, then before leaving for work, put it in the refrigerator, then when you come home you will not have to wait for the dough to defrost, and you can immediately begin the process of preparing “ears” from puff pastry
Ingredients:
Preparation
Defrost the finished dough, roll it out into a layer on a floured table, sprinkle it well with nuts, cinnamon and sugar, then roll it from the ends to the middle into 2 rolls. You can first roll the rolling pin over the nuts so that they are slightly pressed, just don’t overdo it. Cut the dough into pieces about 1-1.5 cm thick, place the puff pastry “ears” on a baking sheet covered with baking paper, and cook in the oven at 180 degrees for about 15-20 minutes until browned. You can simply grease the baking sheet with butter, but the parchment, firstly, will protect the cookies from burning, because the sugar can melt, and secondly, it is much easier to wash such a baking sheet.
By the way, you can prepare puff “ears” either with sugar or sweet sprinkles, or with herbs, cheese, feta cheese, bacon, garlic or red pepper. To do this, place the filling on a plate of dough and roll it into “curls.” These cookies are baked for the same 15-20 minutes, but they can be served not only with tea, but also with soup.
Ready-made puff pastry will always help out when you need to quickly make some kind of pastry for tea and have no time to tinker with yeast sponge or shortcrust pastry No. The layered base gives plenty of room for culinary fantasy. Do you want to cook something sweet or salty pie, pies or buns, puff pastries or pizza? Take puff pastry. Well, if time allows, make it yourself at home. We will use store-bought and bake puff ears.
Ingredients
- 1 pack of ready-made puff pastry yeast-free dough
- sugar (to taste)
- 2 tbsp. l. liquid natural honey
Preparation
1. Take the dough out freezer and let him lie there for a while room temperature. You don't have to remove the wrapper. The only thing is to make sure it doesn’t melt completely. Otherwise, the dough will stick to your hands, and it will become very difficult to work with it. When the dough has become soft and amenable to rolling, place the sheet on the work surface, stretch it with your hands or roll it out with a rolling pin. It is better to take dough that comes in one large layer. Pour sugar on it and press it with a rolling pin.
2. Keep in mind that puff pastry does not have any distinct taste, neither sweet nor salty, simply put, it is tasteless, so if you want the ears to be sweet, put a decent amount of sugar on each layer. We twist it towards the middle on both sides.
3. Cut the resulting puff roll into small pieces.
4. Turn on the oven. While you are working with the remaining dough, it will just heat up. Cover the baking sheet baking paper and place the semi-finished ears on it.
Baking made from puff pastry has special taste qualities– it’s crispy and tender. Although the process of preparing the baking base is quite labor-intensive, the result is worth it. A home-baked delicacy is perfect for tea drinking and will complement the festive sweet table. We offer to cook delicious cookies from puff pastry with sugar “Ears”.
Baking should be made from yeast-free dough; it can be purchased at any supermarket. The main thing is to defrost it first, and then you can start shaping the products. You can sprinkle the cookies with sugar mixed with cinnamon, the baked goods will be much more aromatic. You will spend a minimum of time on the baking process, so the proposed recipe will come in handy when guests are on the doorstep. Cook with pleasure, surprise your guests and loved ones with unusual homemade baked goods.
Taste Info Cookies
Ingredients
- yeast-free puff pastry (store-bought) – 500 g;
- butter -75 g;
- sugar – 190 g;
- chicken eggs- 1 PC.
How to make “Ears” cookies from puff pastry with sugar
The defrosted layer of dough will need to be placed on a table that has been previously sprinkled with flour. Now roll it out to form a rectangle.
On a note: You should not roll out the layer too thin, as it will not be possible to maintain its layering.
Then you need to melt the butter, this process can be carried out either in a water bath or in microwave oven. Using a brush, brush the surface of the dough with melted butter.
Sprinkle puff base granulated sugar, distributing it evenly over the entire surface of the formation.
Start twisting the layer on both sides, you should get two tubes, slightly flatten them on top.
It turns out to be a neat package.
The resulting cookie blanks will need to be placed on a baking sheet lined with parchment. It is worth noting that they should be placed at a short distance from each other so that the cookies do not stick together during baking.
You need to preheat the oven to 220 C. Beat the egg with a whisk, brush the top of the cookies, then sprinkle with sugar (if desired, you can mix it with cinnamon).
The baking process for the delicacy is 12-15 minutes.
Place the finished “ears” made from puff pastry with sugar on a dish and serve to the sweet table. Enjoy your tea!
Cooking tips
- In order for the puff pastry to roll out better, you can replace a regular rolling pin glass bottle filled with water.
- The baking tray is greased with cold water, and only then the workpieces are laid out; during baking it will not stick to the surface.
- The “ear” cookies should be baked in a well-heated oven; they will turn out exactly the same as those sold in the store.
- Can be used for sprinkling workpieces Brown sugar or sugar mixed with cinnamon, then the delicacy will acquire an appetizing caramel shade.
- If the puff pastry is prepared at home, then allow it to cool properly before each rolling out.
- Ready-made cookies can also be used to prepare delicious dessert- Napoleon cake.
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