Romanian mini cheese cakes

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This Romanian desert is definitely my favorite BY FAR! This is one of those recipes you must try at least once in your life!

Ingredients: 

  • 500g flour
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 100g sour cream
  • 100g melted butter or other shortening
  • 1x8g bag of dry yeast
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 300ml milk
  • 100g sugar
  • 1 teaspoon grated lemon and orange zest
  • 2 bags of vanilla sugar

 For the filling:

  • 500g of cheese
  • 2 yolks
  • 100g sugar

Preparation:

Heat some milk, dissolve yeast, mix with 2-3 tablespoons flour and let rise in a warm place. Mix the egg yolks with sugar and salt, yeast. Add milk, sour cream, lemon and orange zest, vanilla and flour. Work the dough for 20 minutes, then add the shortening little by little. Let rise one hour, after which lies a sheet of 4-5 mm thick. Cut squares of 10/10 cm and filled them with cheese filling. Gather corners opposite each other, brush with beaten egg yolk and place on a greased tray. Brush the top with beaten egg yolk and sugar. Bake at low heat for 10 minutes, then continue baking on medium-high heat.When ready sprinkle with vanilla sugar.

To prepare stuffing, put the cottage cheese in a large bowl, mix with the egg yolks and sugar.

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Rice pudding

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This is my wife’s recipe and all our family loves it.

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup of long grain rice
  • 2 cups of milk
  • 1/2 tablespoon of butter
  • 1/3 cup of sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg, cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon of salt
  • 1/3 cup of raisins
  • 1 apple,
  • 4-5 spoons sugar
  • 3 eggs

Directions:

  1. Bring 1.5 cups of milk to boil in a medium sauce pan add rice and stir
  2. Reduce heat and simmer for about 20 minutes; cook this mixture on medium heat until it is nice thick and creamy – about 15 minutes; Stir in the remaining ½ cup of milk; Remove from heat and then stir in the butter and vanilla; beat eggs separately and add to the mixture after cooled down a little
  3. In another sauce pan make caramelized sugar and put over apples previously sliced into a medium dish that was covered with butter. Add all mixture of rice over caramelized apples and put in the oven for 30-40 minutes, or until golden-brown. When ready sprinkle nutmeg, cinnamon-serve warm

 

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