Cheese Pastry Ring - Fluffy Round Cheese Danish with Farmers Cheese and Raisin

feta cheese

🥗Healthier: cottage cheese

💰Cheaper: ricotta

Cottage cheese is lower in fat and calories while still providing creaminess.

sour cream

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: plain yogurt

Greek yogurt offers a similar tang with fewer calories.

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil is healthier and adds a unique flavor.

egg

🥗Healthier: flaxseed meal

💰Cheaper: aquafaba

Flaxseed meal can bind ingredients while being plant-based.

Mix wet ingredients for the dough and add yeast, then let it rest for 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes, check the yeast to see how much it has risen.

Gradually add 5 to 6 cups of flour until the dough is not sticky anymore, using about 5.5 cups for reference.

While the dough rests in a warm place, soak raisins in warm water to plump them up.

Prepare the filling by mixing farmer's cheese and cream cheese, using vanilla sugar instead of vanilla extract, and refrigerate until ready to use.

Roll out the dough into a large rectangle about half an inch thick.

Cut a thin long piece from the rolled dough to fill with cheese, then lay it on a buttered and sugared piece of dough.

Butter the piece of dough with cheese and cut strips on the sides for wrapping.

Optionally, you can bake the dough as a log in a bread pan instead of forming a ring.

Brush the assembled pastry with egg, let it rest for 30 minutes, then brush again.

Bake in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit until golden.

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