Russian Cheese Pastries (Vatroushkies)
Recipe: #13448
July 28, 2014
Categories: Cheese, Appetizers, Eastern European, Oven Bake, Cream Cheese, Flour, Sour Cream, more
"Adapted from The Pan American Complete Round-the-World Cookbook. Prep time includes chilling time for dough."
Ingredients
- PASTRY
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- FILLING
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (224.8 g)
- Calories 785
- Total Fat - 57.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 35.2 g
- Cholesterol - 248.8 mg
- Sodium - 1103.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 37.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.1 g
- Sugars - 1.5 g
- Protein - 31 g
- Calcium - 774.6 mg
- Iron - 1 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.4 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Sift flour into a bowl.
Step 2
Cut in butter.
Step 3
Mix in sour cream.
Step 4
Form into a ball, wrap, and refrigerate at least 2 hours.
Step 5
Preheat oven to 375° F.
Step 6
Beat cream cheese until soft.
Step 7
Add eggs and beat until light and fluffy.
Step 8
Mix in sour cream, butter, salt and sugar.
Step 9
Place dough on lightly flour surface and roll out to 1/8" thickness.
Step 10
Cut out in 3" circles.
Step 11
Place 2 teaspoons of cheese mixture in the center of each circle.
Step 12
Pinch sides together to form cups open at the top.
Step 13
Brush with beaten egg yolk.
Step 14
Place on baking sheet.
Step 15
Bake until lightly browned, about 20 minutes.
Tips
No special items needed.