I was adventurous yesterday and decided to make "Vatrushki" - russian sweet bread. I would say these are the most similar to a cream cheese danish with different dough type & not as sweet. I think I already mentioned this here we have a 'problem' in my family with recording recipes and I intend to start doing that - goal for this year.
Over the holidays I bought a russian cookbook with some traditional recipes. Sorry for the stupid video link but this is the only recipe I was able to find that didn't have weird stuff added to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeBebBoNExo.
I ended up having to amend my dough as my original yeast pack was a dud, I waited for 1.5 hours for it to rise and nothing happened. Thankfully I had more yeast on hand. I got it going in some warm milk with a little bit of sugar and worked it into the dough with extra flour. I was worried that it wouldn't mix properly but it did and it did rise nicely.
A tip on the cottage cheese filling - I used large curd regular store bought cottage cheese, the texture should be closer to ricotta, so I used a fork and mashed the curds some before mixing in egg and sugar. Raisins are optional and when I had these as a kid, at least where I grew up, these did not have raisins.
Cheers
I was adventurous yesterday and decided to make "Vatrushki" - russian sweet bread. I would say these are the most similar to a cream cheese danish with different dough type & not as sweet. I think I already mentioned this here we have a 'problem' in my family with recording recipes and I intend to start doing that - goal for this year.
Over the holidays I bought a russian cookbook with some traditional recipes. Sorry for the stupid video link but this is the only recipe I was able to find that didn't have weird stuff added to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeBebBoNExo.
I ended up having to amend my dough as my original yeast pack was a dud, I waited for 1.5 hours for it to rise and nothing happened. Thankfully I had more yeast on hand. I got it going in some warm milk with a little bit of sugar and worked it into the dough with extra flour. I was worried that it wouldn't mix properly but it did and it did rise nicely.
A tip on the cottage cheese filling - I used large curd regular store bought cottage cheese, the texture should be closer to ricotta, so I used a fork and mashed the curds some before mixing in egg and sugar. Raisins are optional and when I had these as a kid, at least where I grew up, these did not have raisins.
Cheers