Guest Post By My Mum: Savoury Cookies (Cheese Biscuits)

Before I'll get back to show you more from my very hot weekend, here is a guest post my Mum has sent me this morning:

Cheese Cookies
[Meike says: These are savoury cookies or cheese biscuits, and they are very popular with all our family and friends.]

Whenever someone throws a party in my circle of friends and acquaintances, I am asked to bake and bring my homemade cheese-cookies. They are really easy to make, young and old people love their taste, and so I thought it would be nice to share the recipe with Meike's blog readers.

We recently got a very kind letter from a reader, which was also a reason for my decision to give you the recipe, it made us so happy.

Also, this week we celebrated our Golden Wedding anniversary, and I baked hearts for our guests.

Here is the recipe:

250 g flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 level teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon pepper (paprika) powder "edelsüß", that means sweet, not the hot one

1 whole egg plus 1 egg yolk

125 ml cream

125 g cold butter, cut into small pieces

200 g grated cheese, Emmental or Gouda or Gruyere

1 egg yolk for spreading

Make the dough and put it for at least 1 hour (better 2 hours or over night) into the fridge. 

Then flatten it on a floured surface 1/2 cm thick and cut out the cookie shapes you like, if you have no cookie cutter, you can use a small glass. 

Spread the cookies with egg yolk and decorate with poppy seed, sesame seed, caraway seed or coarse salt.

Bake cookies in the oven for about 12-15 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius, or at 160 degrees in a fan oven. Don't let them get too dark.

When they have cooled, you can keep them in a tin box for a few weeks, but I never manage this, because they always are all eaten very soon!

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As you can see in the last picture, the cheese hearts were not the only baking my Mum had done for this special occasion. She also made some mini muffins for those of her guests who preferred something sweet to go along with their glass of champagne or cup of coffee.
What can I say - I was very sorry that I didn't get to eat a single one of those delicious heart-shaped cookies, or the mini muffins! We (i.e. the immediate family and closest friends only) had been out to dine at a good restaurant to celebrate my parents' Golden Anniversary, and by the time we arrived at their place afterwards for some more drinks and conversation to wrap up the evening, I was way too full up to eat anything else.

But there will always be a next time :-)
(My sister can make these, too - I think I am the only one who has not yet tried her hand at this recipe...)