Test ears. Simple Sugar Ear Cookies

28.11.2019

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Servings: 4

How to cook cookies "ears" from puff pastry, a step-by-step recipe with a photo:

Step 1. For "ears" cookies, you can take a ready-made puff without yeast dough in the store, or cook it yourself according to the recipe.

We use yeast-free dough, because, although it does not rise during baking, nevertheless, products from it turn out to be very layered, crispy and, at the same time, tender.

defrosted puff pastry roll out on a floured table into a rectangle to a thickness of 0.5 cm. if the dough rolled out unevenly, cut its edges with a sharp knife until the correct shape is obtained.

Step 2. Sprinkle the rolled-out layer of dough with sugar and cinnamon.

During baking, sugar will “flow” a little due to the high temperature, so it’s better to “press” it a little into the dough with your hands or with a spoon.

Step 3 Ready dough We roll it from both sides so that we get two identical rolls.

Step 4. Cut the roll with a sharp knife into portions about 1 cm thick.

So the cookies are well baked and its puff structure will be clearly visible.

Step 5. On a baking sheet greased or covered with parchment paper, lay out our “ears” at a distance from each other and bake at a temperature of 200-220 degrees for 15 minutes.

During baking, the “ears” will expand a little in breadth and, if you do not leave room for them, the cookies will stick together.

For a uniform color of cookies, after 10-12 minutes in the oven, they must be turned over.

Step 6. Ready-made cookies "ears" from puff pastry can be eaten immediately after you take them out of the "oven", you will not have time to look back, as the contents of the plate will disappear without a trace. These "ears" are very tasty.

Ears cookies are one of the most famous homemade cookies. However, under one name hides several absolutely different dishes. In addition to the name that unites them, they have individual ones: “Houndstooth” or “Triangles”, “Puff Ears”, “Bear Ears” or “Calla” or “Pig Ears”, and, for sweet, interesting in embodiment cookies “Aman's Ears”. In the material we will talk about the methods of preparing all these delicacies.

Cookies "Ears" are often called " crow's feet"or cookies" Triangles. But in any of the three options, a simple, easy-to-prepare delicacy is obtained. The main conditions are the combination in one dish of a soft structure and a crispy crust with sugar sprinkling.

Prepare the following ingredients for kneading the cookie dough:

450 g of cottage cheese;
225 g butter or spread;
345 g flour;
3.5 g baking powder;
a bag of vanillin or 10 g of vanilla sugar;
a pinch of salt;
sugar for rolling cookies.

Approximate calorie content ready meal: 350 kcal.

Total cooking time: 80 minutes.

Let's start preparing the dough for cottage cheese cookies "Ears":

Cottage cheese and butter - rub with a fork until a homogeneous creamy mass. What cottage cheese to choose? Let's be honest: there are no exact indications of the fat content of the product. However, it should be borne in mind that the more fat the cottage cheese, the more the calorie content of the dish increases. And vice versa - low-fat cottage cheese brings cookies closer to diet dishes.
We combine all bulk products, everything except sugar, in a separate bowl. Is the amount of flour indicated in the ingredient list accurate? It is rather difficult to answer this question: it all depends on the flour that is available. Most often, recipes are served on the basis of the mass of flour from durum varieties wheat. Therefore, each brand and manufacturer will have its own mass fraction flour in every recipe. Focus on feelings and everything will work out.
We mix the butter-curd and loose mixtures. We do not tighten it - after all, the oil tends to flow, which means that more flour may be required.
It should be slightly sticky and very soft dough. So that it rolls out well and does not stick to the surface, sprinkle the table with flour. We also pre-divide the dough into 2 or 3 parts - this will facilitate the rolling process. At the same time, the parts that are not involved in the process are stored in the refrigerator.
From a rolled out sheet of dough with a thickness of not more than 0.5 cm, cut out future cookies with a mug or a special round shape.
You may have noticed that sugar was missing from the recipe. This is not entirely true: we will use it for spilling circles of dough. It is convenient to do this by simply pouring sugar into a plate and rolling dough circles on each side, gradually folding in half until a triangle is formed.
We spread the resulting quarters on a sheet of parchment and send it to the oven for 10-20 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C.

Cottage cheese ears cookies are very tasty. It will become an integral part of every family tea drinking meal.

From puff pastry

Cooking option for those who want to cook a treat on the table, but do not like to mess with flour and dough. From the finished puff pastry, no less tasty products are obtained. At the same time, the cookies are distinguished by their extraordinary friability and an interesting shape resembling an ear.

For 8 servings of finished cookies, take:

500 g puff pastry;
35 ml of vegetable oil;
75 g sugar.

Approximate calorie content for 1 serving: 103.7 kcal.

Total cooking time: 30 minutes

Let's start cooking:

First, let's decide what cookie we want to get as a result. It depends on the type of test that you should choose. For tender - take yeast dough. For crispy - yeast-free. But in both cases, the dough must be rolled out into a sheet with a thickness of about 1 cm.
We lubricate the sheet vegetable oil. This will help the sugar stick to the surface of the dough. Yes, just sprinkle sugar on the butter.
Visually determine the middle on the sheet of dough and bend the dough to this place on both sides. Lightly fasten the middle with joined edges and coat with oil.
Again - in half. And cut into pieces. Approximate thickness - 1 cm.
The resulting "Ears" again, only now we dip the sides into sugar, and put them on a baking sheet.
Waiting for readiness is not long - at 200 ° C, the process will take a quarter of an hour.

Cookies "Ushki" from puff pastry is not only more simple option cooking goodies, but also faster.

Cookies "Bear ears"

The difference from the previously presented recipes is that the form, due to which the delicacy got its name, is formed after baking in the oven.

What do we need to prepare?

flour - a glass of 250 ml;
eggs - 4;
sugar - 2/3 tbsp.

Calorie content: 272 kcal per 100 g.

Time: 25 minutes.

Preparing the dough, and the Bear Ears cookies themselves, will not take much time, as it consists of only a few steps:

First of all, turn on the oven - 180 ° C.
Add the flour in portions to the beaten eggs with sugar.
We don’t worry when the flour runs out, and the dough will still be quite liquid - it should be so.
Put the finished dough in the amount of 1 teaspoon on a baking sheet greased with butter.
The process of finding products in the oven will take 7-10 minutes. The main thing is to dry out. Otherwise, the cookies will not take the desired shape.
We pry the cookies, barely pulled out of the oven, with a spatula and fasten the sides according to the principle of an ear or a calla flower. We do this quickly, as the dough cools quickly and becomes brittle.

Bear ears cookies are also often referred to as Calla cookies.

Cooking with Nutella

Making Nutella cookies differs from the previously discussed puff pastry recipe only by using Nutella chocolate spread instead of sugar.

For 500 g of puff pastry, take a large jar of "Nutella".

It will take 20 minutes.

Calorie content: 444 kcal per 100g.

To make cookies:

Roll out the dough.
Coat it with chocolate paste.
We wrap the two edges of the dough to the middle with a roll. We send for 20 minutes in the freezer to facilitate the cutting process.
Cut the resulting video into pieces.
Spread on a baking sheet and bake at 200 ° C - 15 minutes.

Cookies "Ears" with Nutella are ready.

How to cook pig ears

Let's cook the "Pig's Ears" cookies again - it's also "Bear's Ears" or "Callas".

Prepare:

flour - 160 g;
sugar - 200 g;
eggs - 3;
soda - 1/2 tsp;
a couple of drops of lemon juice.

Cooking time at 190°C - 10 minutes.

We prepare the dough on the basis of mixing the ingredients: first eggs and sugar, then flour and soda. We add the acid last, after which we check the dough for density and spread it with a teaspoon on a baking sheet.

Consistency - sour cream.

After baking, we form an ear from round cookies, pinching the edges.

Serve cookies with your favorite drink.

Delicate "Magic Ears"

The magic of the ears lies in the unusually tender and tasty filling.

Required for the test:

margarine - 200 g;
flour - 3 tbsp.;
sour cream - 50 g;
kefir - 50 g;
soda - 1/2 tsp;
egg yolk - 3 pcs.

For the filling, prepare:

protein - 3 pcs.;
sugar - 1 tbsp.

Let's start kneading the dough:

Yolk, sour cream, kefir and soda - mix until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
Grind margarine with flour.
Pour the liquid base into the dry mixture - knead the dough.
From the dough we form small balls with a diameter of about 1.5-2 cm.
We send them to the refrigerator for an hour.

At this time, let's do the filling:

Beat the yolks with sugar. To speed up and facilitate the process, you can add a pinch of salt.
Beat until meringue.

We form cookies:

Taking the balls out of the refrigerator, roll them into thin cakes. Given the original shape, the cakes should turn out in the form of circles. Thickness no more than 0.5 cm.
Place a teaspoon of meringue in the middle.
We fold twice until a triangle is formed: at the same time, we securely fix the edges of the cookies so that the filling does not run away.
Spread on a baking sheet and bake at 180 ° - 15 minutes.

Sprinkle the finished cookies immediately when ready powdered sugar.

Aman's Ears Cookie Recipe

Cookies have their own history: it was from there that the traditional form and method of serving the filling in the open came from.

For 5 servings, take:

180 g butter;
85 g of powdered sugar;
260 g flour;
egg;
yolk;
35 g of corn starch;
1/2 tsp baking powder;
a drop of vanilla essence;
100 g of jam.

Let's start cooking goodies:

Beat softened butter with powdered sugar and vanilla extract into a creamy mass.
Break the whole egg and 1 yolk into the cream.
Mix flour, starch and baking powder.
We get a sticky, but homogeneous dough. Therefore, we keep it in the refrigerator - it will stop sticking to our hands, it will become more pliable.
Roll out the dough to 0.5 cm thick and cut circles out of it.
For each circle we spread the filling in the middle: jam, jam, nutella. We pinch from three sides, forming the sides, but without closing the filling.
Bake at 180°C for 15 minutes.

Homemade sugar ears are delicious, still warm and crispy much better than store bought ones. You only need two ingredients: ready-made puff pastry and sugar. Of course, you can make the dough yourself, but it's better to buy ready-made. Let's get started.

Ingredients:

400 gr. ready-made puff pastry;
1/4 cup sugar.

How to make easy Sugar Ear Cookies

1. Heat the oven to 175°C.

2. Sprinkle half of the sugar on the work surface and place the dough on top. Sprinkle evenly with the second half of the sugar.

3. Very gently go over the dough with a rolling pin to press the sugar a little.

4. Fold the edges of the dough on both sides towards the middle. Fold the dough roll in half again and lightly press the edges together.

5. Cut the dough into strips about 5 mm wide.

6. Line a baking sheet with baking paper and place cookies on it, leaving gaps of about 2 cm between them.

7. Bake the cookies for 7 minutes until golden on the bottom, then flip and bake for another 5 minutes. This may take a little longer or less time, depending on the dough you bought and your oven.

8. When the sugar ears have acquired a golden color, the cookies are ready. Take it out of the oven, let it cool down a bit and enjoy!

Sugar ear options

The taste of cookies can be changed depending on your mood:

1. Use Brown sugar instead of white or add vanillin.

2. Add 2 tsp to sugar. cinnamon, ground ginger or nutmeg.

3. Bake salty ears! To do this, sprinkle the work surface with flour instead of sugar, and roll out the dough on top. Sprinkle with salt and sesame, flax, cumin, poppy seeds. Then follow the recipe, starting from point 4.

Step 1: take puff pastry.

For puff pastry "Ears" we take ready-made puff pastry. If you have free time and desire, you can do it yourself. But if you have tried to cook it at home at least once, you will agree that it is difficult. Although the recipe is quite simple, the cooking process itself is just long and laborious. When choosing puff pastry, inspect the package - this is its only defense, so be sure to check its tightness, if the package has even a small hole, do not take such a product. Such puff pastry, most likely, has already lost its properties.

Step 2: Roll out the puff pastry.

We take the dough and roll it out with a rolling pin into a thin layer, about 5 mm, on a cutting board greased with vegetable oil (so that the dough does not stick to the board). Then sprinkle the entire layer of dough with sugar and cinnamon. We twist one side of the layer into a roll with our hands, to the middle, then, we twist the other side in the same way. Gently press both twisted rolls to each other.

Step 3: cut the dough.

The resulting roll with a knife is cut into strips with a thickness of 1-1.5cm. Then we cover the baking sheet with parchment paper so that the cookies do not burn due to the sugar that will flow out when heated.

Step 4: Bake the puff pastry.

We spread the "ears" on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes at a temperature 180 degrees until golden. Puff pastry "Ears" is ready!

Step 5: serve puff pastry "Ears".

We spread the cookies on a plate and serve crispy and tasty "Ears" with tea or coffee. Bon Appetit!

If you add some sugar and butter between the layers when making puff pastry, then you will improve the taste of the cookies. If you do not like the caramel crust, then sprinkle the finished cookies with powdered sugar through a strainer or put a piece of jam or marmalade on each.

It is not recommended to grease the baking sheet on which puff pastry products are baked, just rinse it with cold water.

Puff pastry is tasty and crispy, if the dough is fresh, due to long-term storage, the dough may acquire an unpleasant taste.

If, when baking puff pastry products, you cut the rolled out layer with a knife into rectangular pieces, then there will be no scraps left that roll out very badly the second time.

Puff pastry should only be cut with a sharp knife or pastry cutter. Since a dull knife flattens the edges of the dough, because of this, the dough does not delaminate well when baking.

If you do not open the oven during the first 5 - 7 minutes of baking, then the puff pastry will increase in volume by 6 - 8 times.

I think each of us has memories from childhood about how my mother baked something very simple, but so tasty for tea. The scent wafted through the house sweet pastries, then a baking sheet emerged from the oven, and on it lay a miracle, the most delicious in the world. And this taste, and this smell, we, grown-up children, carry through our whole lives. This is our childhood - the most beautiful time of life. And so we become parents too. And our little tomboys also definitely need to give this wonderful memory that smells of mother's hands, so that they carry it with love through life. My mother often baked cottage cheese cookies for us, and then I began to pamper my children with them. Today I want to tell you how to make a simple but extremely tasty curd cookies "Ushki". These cookies are called differently: “Triangles”, “Kisses”, “Envelopes”, “Paws”. But the key points of the recipe from the name change do not change. So do not spare a little time and effort, and then your children will also have cookies that they have loved since childhood.

Cottage cheese ears

step by step recipe with photo

Ingredients:

cottage cheese - 250 g,
softened butter or margarine - 100 g,
wheat flour 2-2.5 cups,
tea soda - ¼ tsp (need to pay off)
vanillin - 1 g,
sugar for rolling (about ½ cup)

Take the oil out of the refrigerator first. It should soften naturally and should not be heated at high temperatures. Mash the curd with a fork. You can use a blender or mixer, but it is still better if pieces of cottage cheese are present in the dough. Now you need to add slaked soda to the resulting mixture and mix well again. Soda in a spoon can be repaid lemon juice or table vinegar.

Then introduce gradually into your mixture of millet wheat flour. Knead the dough. Form a ball out of it and place either in a bag, or leave it in a bowl and tighten with a film. Put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Divide curd dough into several parts, so it will be more convenient to work with it.

Each part of the chilled dough will need to be rolled out on a work surface into a layer about five millimeters thick. Using an ordinary glass or a special round mold with curly edges, cut out round cakes from the dough with cottage cheese. Cuts can be reused.

At the same time, each time turn the cake first in half.

And then a quarter. As a result, you should get a semblance of a puff triangle.

Now start baking. On a parchment-lined baking sheet, carefully lay out the "Ears". From the given amount of ingredients in the recipe, you should get cookies just on the baking sheet.

Then put the baking sheet in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. Bake the curd triangles for half an hour. You should be guided by the ruddy color of the baking. Well, and, of course, a delicate aroma that will fill your kitchen.

That's all! An unforgettable sweet treat for your kids is ready! Hurry up to treat them, and they will ask you to bake such cookies many more times.

By the way, in addition to sugar for rolling cookies, you can successfully use cinnamon and ground Walnut. And you can add zest to the dough, then it will be even more fragrant.

Banana Curd Cookie Recipe

Actually, the cooking process is the same as in the photo in the first recipe.

The only difference is that a fresh banana is chopped with a fork along with the cottage cheese.

For cooking you will need:

Ingredients:

cottage cheese - 220 grams,
butter - 220 grams,
flour - 280 grams,
banana - 1 piece,
soda - 0.5 teaspoon,
sugar for rolling cookies.

Cooking process:

Mash the cottage cheese into a homogeneous mass, if desired, you can salt it and add a little soda if the cottage cheese is sour. Mash a banana there.

Grind butter or margarine, mix with cottage cheese.

Sift flour into a mixture of cottage cheese and margarine in portions, stirring each time, you can pour vanilla sugar, but believe me, the cookies will come out fragrant from a banana anyway. Knead elastic soft dough on cottage cheese.

Pour flour on the working table, roll out the dough with a thickness of 3 - 4 mm.

Cut circles with a thin glass, sprinkle the surface of each with sugar, fold in half, the sugar will be inside. Sprinkle the outer surface of the halves again with sugar and fold into quarters so that the sugar is inside. Sprinkle the top surface of the quarters with sugar.

Line a baking sheet with parchment, grease, lay cottage cheese cookies.

Bake curd "paws" until golden brown.

Bon Appetit!

Sincerely, Anyuta