Homemade cheese puffs

Vatrushki with cottage cheese are a wonderful homemade pastry, familiar to us since childhood. I love the dough for vatrushki to be rich, and the filling to be sweet. According to this recipe, the cottage cheese vatrushki turn out very tasty, fluffy, and fragrant. Ingredients: For the dough: 1 egg; 2 tablespoons of sugar; 1/2 packet of vanilla sugar; 1/4 teaspoon of salt; 250 ml of milk; 500-550 g of flour; 1 tablespoon of dry yeast; 80 g of butter. For the filling: 500 g of cottage cheese; 2-3 tablespoons of sugar; 1 egg; 1/2 packet of vanilla sugar. For brushing the vatrushki: 1 egg; 1 tablespoon of milk. Preparation: Beat the egg with sugar, vanilla sugar, and salt. Pour in warm milk and mix. Combine the flour with the dry yeast and gradually add it to the egg-milk mixture, kneading the dough first with a whisk and then with your hands. Finally, add the melted butter and incorporate it into the dough. The dough should be uniform and soft. Cover the bowl with the dough with plastic wrap or a towel and place it in a warm place to rise for 1-1.5 hours. The risen dough will significantly increase in volume. To prepare the filling, mash the cottage cheese with the eggs, sugar, and vanilla sugar. Form small equal balls from the dough and place them on a greased baking sheet, leaving space between them. Let them rise for 20 minutes. Then, press down the center of each dough ball almost to the base. Fill the resulting indentations with the cottage cheese filling. Brush all the homemade vatrushki with the egg and milk mixture and let them sit for another 10 minutes. Then place them in a preheated oven at 190 degrees and bake until golden brown, about 25 minutes. Transfer the finished cottage cheese vatrushki from the baking sheet to a wire rack to cool. The homemade vatrushki with cottage cheese made according to this recipe turned out to be very tasty, fluffy, and fragrant! Enjoy your meal, and delight your loved ones!