Banana cookies with curd filling

It is hard to imagine that 20 years ago, the appearance of some unfortunate bananas on the table became a real holiday. Creative people did not want to put up with such a situation and figured out how to pretend that you can eat this monkey's joy at least every day ...

Ingredients

• 200 g butter
• 200 g sour cream
• 1.5 tsp baking powder
• 2.5 cups flour, plus a little more to roll
• butter for lubrication
• For filling:
• 250 g fat cottage cheese
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla sugar
• 1.5 tbsp. l. butter
• 1 tsp cinnamon

Directions

1. For the dough, soften the butter at room temperature, beat with cold sour cream. Add flour sifted with baking powder and knead to a homogeneous dough. Divide into 30–35 balls, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
2. For the filling, rub the curd through a sieve. Melt butter, mix cottage cheese with sugar, vanilla sugar and cinnamon, add butter and knead until smooth. Add flour and knead again thoroughly.
3. Roll each ball of dough thinly on a floured table, place the filling in the center, pinch tightly around the edges, pull and bend to shape into a banana.
4. Lubricate the parchment with oil and line a baking sheet with it. Place the cookies on it and bake in an oven preheated to 190 ° C until golden brown, 20-25 minutes. Cool and serve.