Rekindling childhood: A simple guide to cheese doughnuts
Do you remember the taste of childhood when your grandma treated you to delicious homemade pastries? One of those treats was certainly cheese doughnuts — fluffy, soft, and sweet doughnuts that melted in your mouth. Would you like to rekindle those memories? With our recipe, making cheese doughnuts will be child's play!
Are you searching for a recipe for something delightful that will please the entire family? Cheese doughnuts are a sweet treat that you can easily prepare in your kitchen. The recipe hails from a time when baked goods relied on simple ingredients, and the results were always impressive. These fried doughnuts with cottage cheese, featuring their characteristic hole, are fluffy, delicate, and perfect as a dessert, snack, or even a delightful accompaniment to coffee.
Discover step by step how to prepare these delights using a traditional recipe that has stood the test of time.
Cheese doughnuts – A traditional flavour that never gets old
There's nothing better than homemade pastries smelling of vanilla and butter. Cheese doughnuts are a dessert most of us associate with childhood. They are quick and easy to prepare, and you can find the ingredients in almost every kitchen. You only need flour, cottage cheese, butter, eggs, and a few extras to create something truly special.
What makes these doughnuts so special? It combines delicate cheese dough with a crispy, golden crust. You don't need specialised equipment or culinary skills to make them — just a glass and a shot glass to give them their characteristic shape.
How to prepare cheese doughnuts step by step?
Ingredients you need to prepare:
To make cheese doughnuts, you'll need:
- 400g of cottage cheese (can be full-fat or semi-fat),
- 400g of plain flour,
- 175g of butter,
- 2 medium eggs,
- 4 tablespoons of sugar,
- 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract,
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder,
- 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda,
- 1 tablespoon of spirit (optional, you can replace it with vodka, vinegar, or lemon juice),
- a pinch of salt.
For frying:
- 500ml of rapeseed oil.
For decoration:
- 2 tablespoons of icing sugar.
Instructions:
- Preparing the ingredients: Sift the flour with baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. Mix or mash the cottage cheese with a fork. Melt the butter and allow it to cool.
- Kneading the dough: In a bowl, combine cottage cheese, eggs, melted butter, sugar, and vanilla extract. Add the sifted flour and gently mix. Finally, add the spirit and knead the dough briefly.
- Forming the doughnuts: Shape the dough into a roll, then cut it into pieces. Roll each piece out flat and cut circles with a glass. Use a shot glass to cut smaller circles in the middle of each larger circle.
- Frying: Heat the oil in a deep pot. Fry the doughnuts on both sides until golden.
- Serving: Drain the finished doughnuts on a paper towel and sprinkle with icing sugar.
