These soft, tangy yet sweet Farmers Cheese Cookies are a definite hit with everyone. Made with ricotta cheese and sour cream, they’re not your everyday cookie.
Let’s start with a little confession: I’m slightly obsessed with cookies. Okay, that might be an understatement. I’m obsessed to the point that I sometimes dream about them. Does that seem a bit excessive? Maybe. But once you’ve tried these ridiculously moist ricotta cheese cookies, you’ll be dreaming the same dream, my friend.
The main ingredient here is the ricotta cheese or farmer’s cheese. Despite the ricotta cheese having a crumbly texture on its own, these cookies won’t fall apart. The ricotta actually adds a great deal of moisture to the cookies to help bind everything together. Not to mention a perfect slightly sweet, slightly salty taste.
In addition to the ricotta cheese, this recipe calls for 2 teaspoons of sour cream. That means even more moisture. The sour cream and ricotta cheese together balance really well with the sugar, vanilla, and butter, resulting in a cookie that won’t weigh you down.
After your dough comes together, roll it out, cut out into smaller pieces, brush with egg, and sprinkle with sugar.
And now you bake
Clearly this is the toughest part. Waiting for these tiny pieces of cheesy sweet goodness to bake. You’ll want to bake these cookies for a good 35-40 minutes so that everything in the dough can set and thoroughly cook.
These ricotta cheese cookies make the perfect sweet treat when you’re bored from traditional cookies and desserts. It’s absolutely refreshing to bite into one of these. Enjoy!
Let’s put these cookies together! You will need:
- unsalted butter
- farmer’s cheese
- sour cream
- vanilla
- baking soda
- lemon juice
- flour
- sugar
- egg
Directions for Sweet Russian Cookies
Steps
In a bowl, beat 1 cup and 2 Tablespoons of softened unsalted butter until it is smooth with no clumps.
Add to the butter 1 cup of farmers cheese or ricotta cheese. Mix well with a spoon.
Fold in 2 teaspoons of sour cream, and a pinch of vanilla.
In a separate small bowl or cup mix 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, it will foam. Add to the bowl with the rest of ingredients.
Fold in 2 cups of flour. Mix well, until all is incorporated. The dough should be soft. (mixing with hands will help incorporate faster).
Preheat oven to 350F. Also prepare a baking sheet by putting a sheet of parchment paper.
With a whisk beat 1 Large egg, for brushing the top of each cookie.
Divide the dough in half. Sprinkle some flour onto your surface where you can roll out the dough.
Take one half of dough, gently roll out into a rectangle shape. (If the dough is sticking to surface it means you are pushing to hard)
Sprinkle a generous amount of sugar throughout the rolled out dough. (leave some for the other half of dough and to sprinkle on top of each cookie)
From the long side roll in the dough.
Cut into small pieces. (Remember they will expand when baking!) Put each piece onto the baking sheet and lightly push down each piece with two fingers to seal the open end.
Brush each piece with beaten egg, and sprinkle with sugar.
(repeat the process with the other half of dough).
Bake for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown.
Irresistble and Sweet Russian Cookies with Simple Farmer’s Cheese Yum
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter (softened)
- 1 cup farmer's cheese (or ricotta cheese)
- 2 tsp sour cream
- 1 pinch vanilla (per 8 servings).
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 2 cups flour (plus a little extra for sprinkling)
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 Tbsp unsalted butter (extra)
Instructions
In a bowl, beat 1 cup and 2 Tablespoons of softened unsalted butter until it is smooth with no clumps.
Add to the butter 1 cup of farmers cheese or ricotta cheese. Mix well with a spoon.
Fold in 2 teaspoons of sour cream, and a pinch of vanilla.
In a separate small bowl or cup mix 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, it will foam. Add to the bowl with the rest of ingredients.
Fold in 2 cups of flour. Mix well, until all is incorporated. The dough should be soft. (mixing with hands will help incorporate faster).
Preheat oven to 350F. Also prepare a baking sheet by putting a sheet of parchment paper.
With a whisk beat 1 Large egg, for brushing the top of each cookie.
Divide the dough in half. Sprinkle some flour onto your surface where you can roll out the dough.
Take one half of dough, gently roll out into a rectangle shape. (If the dough is sticking to surface it means you are pushing to hard)
Sprinkle a generous amount of sugar throughout the rolled out dough. (leave some for the other half of dough and to sprinkle on top of each cookie)
From the long side roll in the dough.
Cut into small pieces. (Remember they will expand when baking!) Put each piece onto the baking sheet and lightly push down each piece with two fingers to seal the open end.
Brush each piece with beaten egg, and sprinkle with sugar.
(repeat the process with the other half of dough).
Bake for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown.
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These are on rotation in our household, my husband always requests these. Easy and so yummy! Hard to stop at just one :P Not too sweet, they’re perfect!
Yes, I recommend this recipe.
From All We Eat Admin:
Thank you for the feedback, we think they are yummy too.
Cheese Cookies They are simple to make and are super soft. You can use farmers cheese for this recipe, but sometimes farmers cheese is very hard to find so ricotta cheese will work great! The dough itself doesn't have any sugar in it so the sprinkled sugar makes a bit sweeter.
Yes, I recommend this recipe.
