Biscuits, white cheese, vanilla and eight marmalades "Petit Nicolas"

Description

Once in France, and it is in the 50 -ies of the last century, writer Rene Goscinny and artist Jean-Jacques Sump has created a series of children's stories about the little Nicolas ("Nicolas Petit"). The book instantly became extremely popular among not only French children but also among adults who admired her unpretentious humor and wonderful illustrations. The world saw the adaptation of this work only a last year. The main character, little Nicolas is a very charming boy of primary school age, where there are the most typical for a child of quality. In class, he had many friends, and each of them is also a bright personality. Mother Nicolas often spoils his son different Goodies. Today we will help and prepare for Nicolas and all his friends a tender, crumbly shortbread with chocolate-vanilla taste and a little fruity surprise to every of this close-knit gang.

Ingredients

Flour

130 g
Butter

130 g
Sugar

60 g
Yolk egg

1 piece
Cheese

50 g
Lemon peel

1 tsp
Vanilla

1 piece
Yeast

0.17 tsp
Soda

0.25 tsp
Salt
Jam

100 g

Cooking

On a fine grater grate a little lemon peel.

RUB the vanilla bean in a mortar and the resulting vanilla "baby" carefully collected with a spoon at the walls. There should be about a quarter of a teaspoon, that is enough.

To the softened butter add the egg yolk and sugar.

Beat with a mixer until then, until the mixture turns white.

Then add the prepared vanilla, lemon zest and curd, draining him pre-serum. All stir again, but haven't beat.

Note: this recipe uses the so-called "white cheese" (fromage blanc), it is shown in the photo. As close it is an analogue of low-fat spreadable cheese. In the French language there are no precise translation of the word "quark", the whole family of these products is called cheese.

The next step, sieve the flour and add to it the yeast, soda and a pinch of salt.

Pour the flour to the whipped butter and stir until smooth.

You will see that the mass has turned soft and airy. Put half an hour in the refrigerator so that the dough is slightly hardened.

And in the meantime let's prepare the marmalades, which will made the filling from the cookies. I had a small jar with eight types: cherry, raspberry, strawberry, peach, apricot, orange, figs and a blend of four fruits.

Turn on the oven to preheat to 180 degrees. Vystelim a baking tray with baking paper and slightly grease it with butter. Take the dough out of the fridge. Separate from the small pieces (about 15g each), roll into a ball and pripuzov it, make circles about 5 cm in diameter.