Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Any-night-of-the-week Kaasstengels (Cheese Shortbreads)

Kaasstengels (Cheese Shortbreads)
Kaasstengels (Cheese Shortbreads)

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Mix butter, egg yolks with a mixer then add the grated matured cheese. Knead in the mixture together with flour, maizena and baking powder. Brush the top of the kaasstengels for a nice shine. Add a small bit of grated cheese on top for decoration.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have kaasstengels (cheese shortbreads) using 4 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Kaasstengels (Cheese Shortbreads):
  1. Take 200 g cheese (Edam is better, if not then gouda, then cheddar), grated
  2. Take 500 g mixed butter (salted) and margarine (or 250g each)
  3. Make ready 800 g flour
  4. Make ready 1 egg yolk

If you don't have a food processor, allow the butter to soften and. In a bowl, whisk together salt, dry mustard, and cayenne pepper and set aside. Mix cheese and butter with a stand or hand mixture until smooth. Whisk the spice mix into the flour.

Steps to make Kaasstengels (Cheese Shortbreads):
  1. Grate cheese, mix it well with the butter-margarine mix with mixer or by hand inside the large bowl.
  2. Add flour little by little, mix everything well.
  3. Grease baking tray with margarine using the large brush.
  4. Put the batter into the cookie extruder, extrude and cut into matchstick length. If you don't have any, you can use a rolling pin (or a bottle) then cut into matchstick-long and finger-wide shape. If you feel lazier, you can make ball-shapes, but the crunch will be less satisfactory due to the thickness difference.
  5. Mix eggyolk with 1 tablespoon of water inside a small bowl. Brush the top of the kaasstengels for a nice shine. Add a small bit of grated cheese on top for decoration. You can skip the eggwashing step if you like, still tastes good.
  6. Preheat the oven (180 degree) for 5 minutes. Bake for 20 minutes and check whether it's cooked through, if not, add 10 more minutes.

Mix cheese and butter with a stand or hand mixture until smooth. Whisk the spice mix into the flour. Cut cold butter pieces into flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs. Fold cream cheese into butter mixture. These buttery biscuits have the texture of shortbread with the kick of parmesan cheese flavour.

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