Thanks to Jacque of Daisy Lane Cakes for her Tuesdays with Dorie pick this week of Cottage Cheese Pufflets, found on pages 148-149 of Dorie Greenspan's Baking from My Home to Yours cookbook.
Cottage Cheese Pufflets are little squares of pastry dough (with the addition of cottage cheese in the mixture) filled with a little dab of a jam of your choice, folded over to make a triangle, baked for 16 minutes in my oven, cooled on a wire rack, and dusted with powdered sugar to spiff them up a bit.
For the jams I did a selection of strawberry, apricot, and Jalapeno (pictured at the top of this post). The Jalapeno were really good with the slightly cheesy flavor in the crust.
The cottage cheese pufflets were little bites of goodness, but awfully fussy to make. I am not one to fuss with little tiny bits of dough and jam because I know that the guys around here are not all that appreciative of little bitty things.
One of these little bitty pufflets gets lost in their large hands and in the case of teenagers, they can pop several in their mouths with no true appreciation of all the work that went into them.
These are "Invite Your Friends to Tea" cookies, not "I Live in a Household of Men" cookies.
The recipe was fine and tasty, but they won't be a staple around here as their favorite use for dough and fruit is pie! Now there's where the appreciation comes in nicely.
Next week: Carla of Chocolate Moosey picked Chocolate-Crunched Caramel Tart, pages 355-357.
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