Cottage Cheese Rolls

I recently gave you all the recipe to my favorite cookies, but Cottage Cheese Rolls are my favorite dessert of all time!  They are so amazingly delicious, that I’m pretty sure they will be served at the marriage supper of the Lamb!   Now, if like most people I share this recipe with, you think, “I don’t think I like the sound of cottage cheese in a dessert”, let me reassure you that you will never know there’s cottage cheese in it – trust me.

The recipe is SUPER simple:

1 1/2 cups cottage cheese (the wet kind – not dry)
1 cup margarine (softened)
2 cups flour
pinch of salt

1.  Blend together all ingredients. 
Form into a ball and chill dough overnight in a sealed container.  (This is so the dough isn’t so goopy and sticky & makes it easier to handle and roll out later)

2.  Divide into four parts.
Take one part at a time and roll dough into a circle on a lightly floured surface (about 10-12 inches in diameter).  Cut into 12 wedges and roll up each wedge (start with large end) to form croissant shape.

3.  Bake at 350F for approximately 20 minutes. 
Alternatively, you can freeze them and bake them at another time.  Personally, I find that I actually like them better when they’ve been frozen.  For some reason, when you make them fresh, they turn out a little differently.  You also don’t really need to thaw them out before baking for more than a few minutes.  I wouldn’t recommend placing them on the pan quite as closely as the picture depicts below (I had them this way for freezing), but they can be pretty close when baking, since they don’t get much bigger than their raw form.

4.  Frost with icing. 
Now, the icing is actually the part that makes these so good!  The rolls themselves are not sweet at all and really only transform into a dessert once the icing is added.  The icing happens to also be one of those things that I don’t have a recipe for and sort of just “wing it”.  It’s maybe roughly 2 teaspoons softened margarine (optional), about a cup of icing sugar, maybe 4 tablespoons of milk, and several dashes of cinnamon.  You can experiment with the amounts until you get something you’re happy with.

Mmmmmmm…I just ate those delicious manna from heaven pictured above.  They are best accompanied by a nice glass of cold milk!  You really should try them & then tell me what you think!