Quark eyes

Made with a delicate quark paste, these sweet golden morsels look like little eyes with their fruit jelly pupils. try also this Belgian endive and broccoli salad recipe too.

Ingredients

Sweet pastry For 55 pieces

250 g of flour

100 g of sugar

1 sachet of vanilla sugar

1 teaspoon of baking powder

100 g of rapeseed oil

250 g of semi-fat quark

120 g of fruit jelly, for example from currant

Freind's kitchen recipes, Soup with apples.

How to proceed

Preparation:

ca. 35 minutes

Baking for pan:

20-25 minutes

Cooling and drying

Total time:

1 h 40 min

Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Quickly mix by hand, or with an electric mixer, the flour with the sugar and vanilla sugar, the yeast, the oil and the quark until a homogeneous paste is obtained. Shape into balls the size of a hazelnut and place them on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. With one finger, make a deep hollow in the center of each ball. Mix the jelly until it becomes nice and smooth, transfer it to a pastry bag and cut off the tip of the pocket. Sprinkle the jelly into the hollows. Brown the quark eyes in the center of the oven for 20-25 minutes. Remove from the oven and add a little more gelatin in the recesses. Allow to cool and then dry the cookies on a rack. You may be interested to read italian apple cake recipe/ asparagus cake recipe.

Useful tips

These cookies are especially delicious when served warm.

Once cool, sprinkle the cookies with icing sugar.

In a cookie box and cool, the quark eyes will keep for approx. 1 week.