Babeczki – with Sweet Cheese

• You might think these are too much trouble compared with making a normal large circular sernik .
• But after making  little babeczki, which people liked being able to pick up an individual little cake, I thought I would give them a try.
• They turned out well  and very good if you want these for a large number of people.
• The sweet cheese mix does not want to be one that rises too much so I adapted the filling from flat sernik. 

Ingredients

• Shortcrust pastry – Kruche ciasto – from 250g plain flour
• This made 24 pastries.
• 200 – 250g yoghurt cheese or cream cheese
•  2 egg yolks
• 50g granulated sugar
• 30g ground almonds
• Fine grated zest of 1 lemon or orange
• 50g mixed chopped peel 

Method

• Pre-heat the oven to – GM5
• Butter shallow tart tins.
• Roll out the pastry very thinly.
• Cut out circles to fit and line each tart mould.
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• Filling
• ¾ fill each tart – leaving room for expansion.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes.
• Leave to cool a little before removing them from the tins.

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