Filled cheese taler

Name: Filled cheese taler
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h
Yield: 24
Ingredients: 150 g Parmesan (piece); 125 g + some flour; 1 knife tip Baking Powder; 2 Eggs (Gr. M); 125 g cold butter; 150 g Double cream cheese; 3 TABLESPOONS Milk; 2 TABLESPOONS Walnut kernels; 3 (approx. 25 g) dried figs; 1 TEASPOON Honey; 7-10 Tbsp Salt; 7-10 Tbsp Pepper; 3-4 Stem(s) Thyme; 12 paprika-filled olives; 50 g Feta cheese; 1 fresh fig

AUTHOR
Pat Ware

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
180 mins

TOTAL TIME
180 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 24

150 g Parmesan (piece)
125 g + some flour
1 knife tip Baking Powder
2 Eggs (Gr. M)
125 g cold butter
150 g Double cream cheese
3 TABLESPOONS Milk
2 TABLESPOONS Walnut kernels
3 (approx. 25 g) dried figs
1 TEASPOON Honey
7-10 Tbsp Salt
7-10 Tbsp Pepper
3-4 Stem(s) Thyme
12 paprika-filled olives
50 g Feta cheese
1 fresh fig

Directions

1
Grate the parmesan, put 2 tablespoons aside. Mix 125 g flour and baking powder. Knead with 1 egg, butter in pieces and the rest of the parmesan until smooth. Cover and chill for about 30 minutes.
2
Mix cream cheese and 2 tablespoons of milk. Halve the mixture. Chop nuts and dried figs. Put 1 tsp. of nuts aside for garnishing.
3
Mix figs, honey and half cream cheese. Season. Wash the thyme. Set aside 1 stalk, chop the rest.
4
Chop 9 olives. Mix with thyme and crumbled feta with the rest of the cream cheese and season to taste.
5
Roll out dough on flour to a thickness of 2-3 mm. Cut out about 24 circles (5 cm Ø). Cut out 1 circle (2.5 cm Ø) from the centre. Knead dough, roll out and cut out another 24 circles.
6
Place on a tray lined with baking paper.
7
Separate 1 egg. Brush circles with egg white. Put 1 ring on each. Whisk egg yolk and 1 tbsp. milk, brush rings with it. Sprinkle the rest of the cheese on top. Bake in a hot oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: level 2) for about 10 minutes.
8
Let it cool down.
9
Wash the figs and cut into slices. Fill 12 cookies with fig cream. Garnish with figs and the rest of nuts. Cut 3 olives into slices. Fill the remaining biscuits with feta cream. Garnish with olives and thyme.