![]() (This may seem impossible at first, but the heat from your hands will soften the dough and help it meld. Keep working mixture with hands until dough holds together in a ball. Add flour, salt and spice mix with hands until well combined (will be crumbly). CHEESY STARSġ/3 cup butter, at room temperature (not melted)ġ/4 teaspoon paprika, dry mustard or chili powderīeat butter with spoon or spatula until softened. And if you don’t have a star-shaped cookie cutter, any shape will do, just adjust the name. A handful would make a nice after-school snack. A sprinkling of sugar gives it a little sweetness. This is not a dessert cookie, but more of a flat biscuit or a fat cracker. ![]() And if the rolling and cutting get too exasperating, just roll the dough into balls and flatten them on your cookie sheet. For this reason, don’t use cute little 1-inch cookies cutters it will take too long to cut all the dough (this is experience talking). It’s not the easiest dough to work with as the edges tend to crumble apart. Add a few drops of water if you start losing faith. Your body heat will help turn it into a cohesive dough. It will be very crumbly - in fact, you’re probably going to suspect something’s wrong, but think positive and keep turning, folding and working it. You don’t need a mixer for this recipe - it’s best if you just work the dough by hand. I used a Mexican three-cheese blend, because that’s what I had, but I would’ve liked less subtlety and more cheesiness. For the greatest impact, though, I’d use a sharp cheddar. You can use any kind of cheese, depending on what you like, what you have or what’s on sale. Recent interest in this treat can be tracked to Food Network personality Nigella Lawson, who talked up her version - called Cheesy Feet and made with a foot-shaped cookie cutter - last year on National Public Radio and on her blog,. A few also called for some spicy spice - dry mustard, paprika or red pepper. Lacking any specific description, I just poked around for cookies made with cheese and found a lot of suggestions under many names, but surprising uniformity in all the formulas.Ĭheddar Cheese Cookies, Cheddar Dreams, Estonian Cheese Biscuits (really) … the recipes all called for some combination of grated or shredded cheese, flour, butter and a little bit of leavening (salt or baking soda) - and that was pretty much it. Neither had I, but who wants to disappoint a grandson? It became a quest. "I told him I never heard of cheese cookies." "My grandson asked me to make him cheese cookies," writes Bobbie Stone.
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