How to Make Cheese Blintzes
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Aug 30, 2024
Cheese blintzes are fun and easy to make. Perfect for any meal, any time of year, homemade crepes are filled with an easy cheese filling.
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Hi, I'm going to show you how to make my absolute favorite cheese blintzes
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And be sure to read my post to learn how to make this perfect blueberry sauce topping
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To make the crepes, you're going to add the milk, eggs, and vanilla extract
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Blend it well until everything is well combined. Then stop the blender and add the dry ingredients
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That's the flour and the salt. You're going to blend that again just until it's combined
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Do not over blend. I like to run a spatula through it after it comes off the blender just to make sure I've
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combined all of the dry ingredients and that none are visible. Cover the blender and let it sit for 30 minutes
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Then you're going to heat your frying pan with just a slab of butter
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I mean like less than half a tablespoon. You do not need a lot of butter
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You also don't want to use a lot because the more that's on there, the more it will brown
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and start to burn. If you have too much butter, just dump a little bit of it off like I just did here
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Here I'm using a 10-inch pan because the bottom of it is actually 8 inches
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The very top where there will be no crepe batter is actually 10 inches
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And I want these blintzes to be 8 inches in circle. You want to pour in enough batter to have a very thin layer to cover the entire bottom
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You can swirl the pan a little bit to move some of the batter if there's more in one
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spot than there is in another. Over a medium heat, it should only take about a minute or two for the bottom to be fully cooked
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You'll know that it's cooked because the top will really have no actual wet batter on it anymore
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You can put your finger on a drop of it to see if it's fully dry on top
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If you feel like the bottom is getting too brown and is in danger of burning, then just
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flip the crepe over for literally just a second or two just to get that top part cooked
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To remove the crepe from the pan, loosen the edges and then just go under with a spatula
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Place the cooked side of the crepe onto a plate and then continue making your crepes
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pouring a little more batter in and swirling the pan. Once this one's done, place it on top of the other crepe, again with the cooked side down
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You can see the top of the crepe is getting dried up and cooked so that I won't have to
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flip this one over
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Continue making the crepes until the batter is all fully cooked
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To make the cheese filling, combine your farmer's cheese and your cottage cheese and just mash
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it together with a fork. The reason why we use both these cheeses is that farmer's cheese is basically cottage
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cheese but much drier. Adding a little bit of cottage cheese contributes a little more moisture to the filling
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Next, add in the sugar, salt, vanilla, melted butter, and the egg yolk and mix until it's
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fully combined
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To fill the crepes, you can take two tablespoons of the filling and spoon it onto each crepe
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I prefer to use a piping bag or if you don't have a piping bag, take a Ziploc bag and fill
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it with the cheese filling and just cut the bottom corner of the bag to pipe it in
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I find it much easier to pipe the filling into the crepe and it turns out to be a lot
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better shaped this way as well
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To fill them, put the cooked side up and put about two tablespoons of filling
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I like to use the piping bag so I can get two stripes. I leave about an inch and a half on the bottom and on the sides from the filling
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Then fold the top up over the filling and then the sides and then roll it up
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Continue doing this with each of the blintzes
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As you shape them, put the seam side down
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Once you have them all shaped, you can fry them all up or you can just place them in
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the refrigerator to fry for the next day or the day after that. They also freeze beautifully at this point
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To cook them, again put a small slab of butter on your frying pan
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You don't want too much otherwise it will just brown and start to burn
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Place about three blintzes on the warmed frying pan and let them cook for a couple of minutes
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on each side. You just want to get them nice and brown on both sides
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Be sure to place the blintzes in the frying pan with the seam side down
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As you're cooking each batch, since you can only fit a few into the frying pan at a time
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if the pan starts to burn from the butter, then just stop the process and clean your
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pan and then start over with warming up some more butter
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While these cheese blintzes are absolutely delicious on their own, you can top them with
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some powdered sugar or make a fruit topping. Enjoy
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