“Goose feet” - this name is associated with many people not with meat products, but with delicious pastries, familiar from childhood. Several desserts have this name: soft cottage cheese cookies with sugar or other filling, a biscuit cake with a layer of cherry and chocolate cream, and a chocolate cake with a delicate cherry-cream cream.

Below are collected proven recipes and secrets of baking each of these desserts, which will help any mom to give sweet memories to her children.

Classic Curd Goose Feet Cookies

The classic version of cookies, reminiscent in shape of the legs of a famous poultry, has in its composition:

  • 300 g of cottage cheese;
  • the same amount of flour;
  • 250 g butter;
  • 1 egg
  • 5 g of soda;
  • approximately 220 g of sugar.

Dessert is being prepared without any frills:

  1. Beat the sour-milk ingredient through a fine-mesh sieve with a mixer and beat with soft butter. Then stir in the egg, soda and flour. Since the humidity of the curd may vary, the last ingredient may need to be taken a little more or less.
  2. The resulting mass should have a soft and slightly sticky texture to the hands. Therefore, it should be sent for half an hour to the refrigerator and worked with it after this time, cutting off small pieces so that it does not become sticky again in the heat.
  3. Turn a small piece of the cooled dough with a rolling pin into a 3–5 mm thick flat cake and cut out mugs from it with a thin-walled glass.
  4. Pour sugar into a flat dish.
  5. Roll the dough from the curd dough in it on one side, then fold it in half with sweet grains. Repeat this process again and again roll one barrel of future cookies in sugar.
  6. Place the formed blanks on the baking sheet with the sugar side up and send to the oven, preheated to 200 degrees, for 20 minutes.

No eggs added

Among the non-egg baking, the “Goose legs” cottage cheese cookies are considered the most delicious, although it consists of only four components:

  • 200 g of cottage cheese;
  • 100 g butter;
  • 130 g of flour;
  • 150 g of brown sugar.

How to cook:

  1. In a bowl with flour, send large shavings of cold oil and put the cottage cheese squeezed through the sieve cells. Knead well and collect the resulting mass in a bun, which should be put aside for an hour in a colder place.
  2. Next, cut circles with a diameter of about 7 cm from dough rolled into a layer. Dipping them in brown sugar, form “paws”, lay them on a baking sheet and press down with a fork for the corresponding pattern.
  3. The temperature regime of heat treatment and its duration will be 200 ° C and 20 minutes, respectively.

Cinnamon Recipe

The aromas of orange, cinnamon and vanillin fragrant throughout the kitchen will collect all the households in the kitchen long before the cottage cheese pastries are removed from the oven.

For the cinnamon option you will need:

  • 300 g of cottage cheese;
  • 180 g butter;
  • 8 g of vanilla sugar;
  • 1 orange (zest);
  • 2 - 3 drops of vanilla essence;
  • 6 g of baking powder;
  • 320 - 340 g of flour;
  • 110 g of sugar;
  • 15 g of cinnamon.

Baking sequence:

  1. Mix flour with baking powder and zest. Grate cold butter into this mixture and mix until crumby. Then add cottage cheese and orange essence. Knead the dough, which immediately needs to be removed for an hour and a half in the refrigerator.
  2. In a small flat saucer, mix cinnamon and sugar.
  3. Roll out the dough into a layer, cut circles out of it and then form “paws”, as in the classic recipe, but dipping the blanks into the mixture from the previous step.There are other filling options for this cookie, for example, chopped nuts and sugar through a meat grinder, poppy, mashed with raisins, or sesame.
  4. At 180 degrees, cookies will be baked for approximately 15 to 20 minutes. It is important to ensure that the baking is not burnt, it should be crispy on the outside and soft inside.

Goose legs cookies without cottage cheese

This cookie without cottage cheese is prepared from a false-layered dough, for which it is necessary to prepare:

  • 2/3 packs of oil;
  • 4 g of soda;
  • a third glass of kefir (sour cream);
  • up to a pound of flour (depending on quality).

Additionally, in the process of forming “paws”, 100-200 g of sugar will be required.

Cooking progress:

  1. In a bowl with flour and salt, grate cold butter on a chicken grate and mix everything quickly into crumbs.
  2. Combine kefir with soda and pour into a bowl with mass from the previous step. Collect the dough in a lump and give it half an hour to stabilize in the cold.
  3. Go through the dough with a rolling pin until it turns into a thin cake. Cut a mug blank from it with a glass. Dip one side of each of them in sugar, then fold the circle in half twice, so that all the sugar is inside.
  4. With a knife, make incisions from the edge to the center of the circle to make a goose foot. Transfer cookies to a baking sheet covered with parchment and bake at 200 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes.

Cooking dessert from childhood

Often, the most pleasant childhood memories are associated with simple desserts, such as Goose Feet.

You will need:

  • 200 g butter or margarine;
  • 200 g of cottage cheese;
  • 2 yolks;
  • 30 ml of water;
  • 4 g vanilla sugar;
  • 15 g of baking powder;
  • 400 g flour;
  • 2/3 cups (or how many blanks will take) sugar.

The sequence of actions:

  1. Combine cold butter chips with cottage cheese, vanilla and a little regular sugar. Add flour and baking powder. Knead these foods until fatty.
  2. Add the yolks and cold water to the dough. Then knead the dough until it turns into a smooth, satin mass of a homogeneous consistency. We give him a break on the shelf of the refrigerator, wrapped in plastic wrap.
  3. Form triangular cookies, acting in the same way as in the previous recipes. Bake them in a preheated oven.

Goose Feet Cake - Soviet Recipe

This dessert from the Golden Collection of Culinary Heritage of the Soviet Union is a delicate sponge cake layered with cherries and chocolate cream.

For a cake weighing 1.3 kg and a diameter of 24 cm, the proportions of the ingredients for the biscuit will be as follows:

  • 4 eggs;
  • 120 g of sugar;
  • 120 g of flour.

To fill the cake you will need to prepare:

  • 200 ml of 20% cream;
  • 200 g of granulated sugar;
  • 200 g butter;
  • 10 g of cocoa powder;
  • 3 g of vanillin;
  • 30 ml of brandy or liquor;
  • 300 g soaked in brandy fresh or thawed cherries.

The classic sponge cake used for shortcakes requires an impregnation prepared from:

  • 45 ml of water;
  • 40 g of sugar;
  • 15 ml of brandy.

Cake is decorated with dark chocolate crumbs and chocolate icing, which includes:

  • 100 g of chocolate;
  • 60 g of butter.

Step by step cooking:

  1. For a biscuit, the eggs, without separating the squirrels from the yolks, should be beaten together with sugar until the trace from the trickle flowing from the whisk remains on the surface for a long time. Combine flour with folding movements and bake high biscuit cake from the resulting dough.
  2. Mix cream with sugar and put on fire. After boiling, boil the mixture for about 5 minutes until the consistency of liquid condensed milk, then cool.
  3. Beat butter until fluffy with vanilla, then in small parts add cream boiled with sugar into the resulting composition. When the mass becomes homogeneous, add cocoa and cognac, mix the mixture with a mixer until smooth.
  4. Cut the cooled biscuit into two layers, each of which is soaked in sugar syrup with cognac. Lubricate the lower cake with a thin layer of cream and spread the cherry aged in cognac on it. Top the berries with the remaining cream and cover with another cake. Remove the cake for 30 - 40 minutes in the refrigerator.
  5. Melt the chocolate in any way possible until smooth and pour the icing cake on top. Apply a thin layer of sweet mass on the sides of the dessert, which immediately cover with chocolate chips. Draw a trace of crow's feet on the cake surface with a small amount of liquid glaze.

How to make cottage cheese cakes

The “Goose paws” cake is prepared at the same time from those ingredients that are part of both the cookie and the cake. It has chocolate, cherries, and cottage cheese.

Proportions of ingredients:

  • 200 g butter;
  • 150 g of sugar (50 g of them in cream);
  • 2 eggs;
  • 200 g of dark chocolate;
  • 12 g of baking powder;
  • 300 - 350 g of flour;
  • 380 g of cottage cheese;
  • 210 ml of yogurt;
  • 8 g of vanilla sugar;
  • 10 g of gelatin;
  • 145 ml of water;
  • 300 g pitted cherries.

How to make chocolate cakes with curd cream:

  1. Grind the butter with sugar and add the melted chocolate on the steam bath. Then introduce one egg at a time, then flour and baking powder. From the resulting test, bake a rectangular biscuit with dimensions of 20 by 30 cm.
  2. Combine gelatin dissolved in water with cottage cheese and both types of sugar. Kill everything until smooth with a hand blender, pour in room-temperature yogurt and add cherries. Mix everything again until smooth.
  3. Cut the biscuit cake into two layers along. Put the whole cream on an even layer on the bottom and cover with a second biscuit. Send the layered cakes to the refrigerator, and when the cream stabilizes, cut them into rectangular cakes. This pastry can be decorated in the same way as a cake with chocolate icing.

All the secrets of making a delicious treat

Having decided to cook one of the desserts called “Crow's feet”, it will not be amiss to get acquainted with the secrets of experienced housewives that will help to avoid possible failures:

  1. The fatter it is to take the cottage cheese for the dough, the more tender the baking will be. For the same purpose, instead of whole eggs, housewives use only yolks.
  2. To prevent the formed blank from sticking to the baking sheet, it must be covered with parchment. It is important that the filling sugar does not touch the pan and is only on top, otherwise it will start to burn and spoil the taste of the dessert.
  3. To improve the quality of the flour for the cake, about one tablespoon of the grain product can be replaced with starch.If the hostess is afraid that the biscuit will not rise, you can add half a teaspoon of baking powder to the dry ingredients.
  4. Traces of crow's feet can be glazed on the cake or on the cake using melted chocolate squeezed from the cornet. Cornet can be made of thick film, stationery or parchment.

When thinking about what to cook for tea, remember the “Goose Feet”. After all, any of the desserts with this name is unusually tasty and quite simple in execution.

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