Cheese Biscuits (Frollini al Formaggio)
Instructions
Place in a mixing bowl the butter, grated cheese, salt, sweet paprika and cream and mix the ingredients with a wooden spoon until mixture is smooth.
Sift the flour together with the baking powder on the countertop, add the mixture to the butter and mix everything with your hands, crumbling the mixture continuously until you have consumed all the flour.
Knead together the crumbs till you get a smooth paste and homogeneous.
Do not mix for too long, then collected a ball and let rest in refrigerator for two hours, wrapped in a sheet of aluminum foil.
After the indicated time roll out the pastry with a rolling pin on floured pastry Board, so you get a browse around half a centimeter thick.
Obtained from the paste so many cookies of different shapes, using shaped punches, and allineateli on the plate of the oven.
Brush the surface of cookies with the egg yolk, some cospargetene with Sesame, others with cumin, chopped pistachio nuts, the salt or the poppy seeds and cook in a hot oven (200 degrees) for 10-15 minutes.
---ADVICE.
The tasty cheese Biscuits that you can achieve in the most diverse forms, are particularly good and fragrant if tasted just removed from the oven.
However you can also serve a few hours after cooking, by heating in the oven.
Ingredients and dosing for 6 persons
- 150 g of butter
- 60 g of sbrinz cheese, grated
- 120 g of grated emmenthal cheese
- 1/2 cup of cream
- Salt
- 1 teaspoon of sweet paprika
- 250 g of flour
- 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
- 2 egg yolks
- Flour for the pastry board
- For garnishing:
- Poppy seeds
- Sesame seeds
- Cumin
- Chopped pistachios
- Coarse salt