Fast, simple and tasty crow's feet cookies Easy to cook with kids. In particular, my six-year-old daughter almost completely made these cookies, the only thing I kneaded the dough, because it is physically difficult for a child to do this.

There are a lot of different recipes for these cookies, this is what I like about the fact that it has more cottage cheese than flour, and eggs are not used at all, so the cookies turn out to be airy and light.

The total cooking time for cookies is a little over an hour, and 30 minutes of them are required to stand the dough.

For the Houndstooth Cookies you will need:

• Cottage cheese. 250 gr. The fat content of cottage cheese is not critical.
• Flour. 1 glass.
• Butter. 100 gr.
• Baking powder. 1 teaspoon.
• Vanilla sugar or vanilla extract.
• Sugar. 3-5 tablespoons.
• Salt. on the tip of a knife.

We bake "Houndstooth" cookies.

First of all, 100 grams of butter is about half a small pack, leave it in a warm place so that the butter softens. We do not melt the butter, but only let it become completely soft.

In a suitable container for dough, beat soft butter with 2 tablespoons of sugar and a small pinch of salt, literally on the tip of a knife. Also add a bag of vanilla sugar or a few drops of vanilla extract.

You can beat with a whisk or a fork, it’s easier with a fork, because in the future you won’t mix the dough with a whisk, but with a fork - quite - accordingly, there are fewer things to wash. So we give the child a fork, after which we observe the process.

Put 250 gr. in whipped butter. cottage cheese and carefully mix the butter with cottage cheese. It’s already hard for a child to do this, so we take the reins of government into our own hands.

When the cottage cheese with butter is thoroughly mixed, pour 1 cup of flour and 1 teaspoon of baking powder into it. You can, instead of baking powder, use half a teaspoon of baking soda, slaked with lemon juice or vinegar.

Chop the dough with a spatula or knife until a soft dough is obtained. I use the same fork and knead the dough with it.

Wrap the dough in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

After half an hour, we start cooking cookies.

Turn on the oven to heat up to 200ºС.

We take the dough out of the refrigerator and remove the film from it.

You can roll out the whole dough into a large layer with a thickness of about 5 mm with a rhinestone, and use a saucer to cut circles from the dough with a diameter of about 8-10 cm. The rolling board and rolling pin must be powdered with flour, since the dough is soft and slightly sticky.

My daughter and I do things differently. We take a small piece of dough and roll it into a ball, the size of a walnut or slightly smaller than a ping-pong ball.

Roll the ball of dough lightly in a saucer with flour, then roll it into a circle.

Sprinkle half of the mug with sugar.

Fold the circle in half, sugar inside, and again sprinkle the semicircle with sugar.

Fold the semicircle in half again. Sprinkle the upper part of the quarter-circle with sugar, you can make small cuts to imitate crow's feet. You can simply pour sugar into a saucer and dip the dough into sugar.

Place cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Repeat this until all the dough is used up.

We put a baking sheet with cookies in an oven preheated to 200ºС for about 15 minutes. Bake until golden.

After that, we take the cookies out of the oven, immediately remove them from the baking sheet and transfer them to a suitable dish.