Cheese curd pastry recipe: perfect for breakfast, and weddings

Small and tasty cakes suitable for breakfast as well as a wedding

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Small round cakes with different fillings are very popular in the Czechia, as well as surrounding countries. You can buy them in bakeries as grab-and-go pastry or they are essential for weddings as "výslužka", which is a box of wedding sweets to take home.

I love cheese curd, poppy, and walnuts ones. Today, I will share the recipe for cheese curd filling, but really, you can use everything including Nutella, jam, apples... anything.

Cheese curd pastry

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CuisineCzechia

MealBreakfast

Ingredients

700g flour
30g fresh yeast
250ml of milk
280g of sugar
200g of butter
5 eggs
salt
lemon peel
500g of cheese curd
100g of raisins
brandy

Instructions

Dough

Warm milk at 35 degrees Celsius. Add yeast, salt and 80g of sugar, and let it grow for 5-10 minutes.
Melt 100g of butter.
Mix 500g of flour, melted butter, lemon peel, 2 eggs and the yeast mixture together and prepare the dough until it's smooth and not sticky. If necessary, add some flour.
Leave it to grow/prove for at least one hour.
Divide the dough into small parts and prepare balls with diameter approximately 8 cm. Place it on oiled baking sheet and force a hole in the middle (see the picture).
Take one egg and whip it. Smear the whipped egg on the dough rings and then fill the holes with filling and streusel.
Bake at 170 degrees Celsius for approximately 20 minutes.

Filling

Pickle the raisins in brandy for at least 15 minutes.
Mix cheese curd, 2 eggs, 100g of sugar, and raisins with brandy together and let it rest for a while. It shouldn´t be runny.
Fill the dough with the mixture, it is usually one full soup spoon per cake.

Streusel

Melt 100g of butter. Add 100g of sugar and 200g of flour into hot butter and prepare crumbly mixture.
Add the streusel on the top of cheese curd filling.

Recipe by

Simona Poláková

Now, prepare a coffee or cocoa and bon appetite!