5 excellent recipes for pastry pouches – perfect taste without much effort

Are you looking for a quick, easy, and not-too-sweet candy that will melt on your tongue?

If so, you must try our recipe for pastry pouches, so-called frog’s mouth.

Adding a bit of vinegar to the dough will surprise you with how soft the pouches will be.

They are often filled with walnut filling, but you can also use jam, poppy seeds, cottage cheese, or apples.

There are no limits to imagination, and you can prepare them not only at Christmas.

Jam Frog’s mouth

Did vinegar surprise you among the ingredients? Definitely don’t miss it. Thanks to the small amount, it perfectly helps the dough’s fragility; you won’t recognize it in the candy at all.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup of butter
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons of vinegar
• plum jam

Method:

1. Mix the flour, butter, eggs and vinegar in a bowl.
2. Work it into a dough and rest for 10-15 minutes.
3. Then, roll out the dough into a sheet approximately 0.2 inches thick.
4. Using a larger round cutter or a cup, cut out circles.
5. Place a full teaspoon of jam into each circle.
6. Carefully fold the wheel in half and press the edges with your fingers.
7. Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
8. Place in an oven preheated to 356°F.
9. Bake for about 10-12 minutes depending on size.
10. Sprinkle the still-warm pouches with powdered sugar

Nutshells

If you want the cookies to be less sweet, you can prepare the dough completely without sugar. You can also use walnut halves in addition to the nut filling. In that case, it is better not to close and open the shells slightly.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour
• 1 cup of butter
• 1/2 cup of powdered sugar
• 1-2 eggs
• pinch of salt

Nut filling

• 1/2 cup ground walnuts
• 2 tbsp of powdered sugar
• 1 egg white
• 1 tbsp rum
• a pinch of cinnamon

Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients for the dough in a bowl.
2. Process the dough and then put it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
3. In the meantime, prepare the walnut filling.
4. Mix ground walnuts and powdered sugar in a bowl, add egg white, rum and cinnamon.
5. Mix thoroughly.
6. Preheat the oven to 356°F.
7. Remove the dough from the fridge and roll it into a sheet approximately 0.1-0.2 inches thick.
8. Use a glass or mug to cut circles and place a teaspoon of walnut filling in each.
9. Then, fold the wheel, press the edges, and shape the pouch.
10. Bake for approximately 10 minutes, depending on the size of the cookies.
11. Finally, roll the still warm cookies in powdered sugar

Frog’s mouth with almond filling

You can easily replace the walnut filling with a softer almond filling. Try it out with this recipe.

Ingredients:

Dough

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup of butter
• 1 cup sour cream
• 4 egg yolks
• 1/2 package of baking powder

Almond filling

• 1 cup sliced almonds
• 1 cup of powdered sugar
• 4 egg whites

Method:

1. Place softened butter, egg yolks, sour cream, flour and baking powder in a food processor.
2. Work into a smooth dough.
3. Shape the dough into small balls about the size of a walnut.
4. Place the balls on a tray lined with baking paper or in a bowl on top of each other; they should not stick together.
5. Put the tray or bowl in the fridge for at least an hour.
6. In the meantime, whip the egg whites until stiff and gradually add the sugar.
7. Then roll each ball into an oval shape.
8. Spread the snow in the middle and sprinkle with a few almond slices.
9. Use just enough egg white so that it doesn’t run out when gluing
10. Fold the longer ends of the oval over and press together.
11. Preheat the oven to 356°F and bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes until pink.
12. After removing from the oven, sprinkle the cookies with powdered sugar.

Cottage Cheese Pastry Pouches

You can use cottage cheese in the dough and the filling for this cookie.

Ingredients:

Dough

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup of butter
• 1 cup of cottage cheese
• 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar

Cheese filling

• 1 cup of cottage cheese
• 1/4 cup of sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
• raisins (optional)

Method:

1. Mix the butter, flour, sugar and cottage cheese in a bowl or food processor.
2. Work it into a smooth dough, wrap it in cling film and put it in the fridge for at least two hours.
3. Meanwhile, prepare the cottage cheese filling.
4. In a bowl, thoroughly mix the cottage cheese, sugar, eggs and vanilla sugar.
5. After the required time has passed, roll the dough into a sheet approximately 0.2 inches thick.
6. Cut out circles with a cup or a round cutter.
7. Place a teaspoon of cottage cheese filling in one half of these rounds.
8. Then, fold the circle in half and gently press on the edges so the pouches do not open during baking.
9. Place on a tray lined with baking paper.
10. Bake in an oven preheated to 356°F for approximately 20-25 minutes.
11. After baking, sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Christmas puff pastry clams

If you don’t want to make your own dough, you can also use ready-made puff pastry to make this delicacy.

Ingredients:

• package of puff pastry
• 2 apples
• 2 tbsp of granulated sugar
• fresh juice of half a lemon
• a pinch of cinnamon
• milk and sugar for spreading

Method:

1. Peel and grate the apples.
2. Put the apples in a bowl and add the juice of half a lemon, sugar and cinnamon.
3. Mix thoroughly and set aside.
4. Roll out the puff pastry into a sheet approximately 0.2 inches thick.
5. Use a mug, a glass or a round cutter to cut circles out of it.
6. Roll out the remaining puff pastry and cut out more circles.
7. Place a teaspoon of apple filling in each circle.
8. Close in half and press the edges thoroughly.
9. Brush the clams with milk and make small slits like rays on the surface with a knife.
10. Finally, sprinkle the cookies with a small amount of sugar and place them on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
11. Place in an oven preheated to 356°F and bake for approximately 15-20 minutes, depending on the size of the clams.

Where did the pastry pouches come from?

This sweet pastry catches everyone’s eye at first glance with its name. Those who do not know “frog’s mouth” often do not know what to expect. The funny name is, of course, related to the appearance, because if we do not press the bags intentionally or unintentionally along their entire length, they “grin” during baking, and the result reminds many of a frog’s mouth.

In addition to this label, others are also used, mainly frog mouths or spouts, but those that refer to another shape to which this candy is similar, shells, clams or small pouches

In the basic recipe, the dough is made from only four ingredients, flour, fat, eggs and vinegar. But there are also variants that also contain sugar or use puff pastry.

What you fill the frogs’ mouths or pastry pouches with mainly depends on your preferences. Most recipes mainly use a nut filling, but jam, poppy seeds and apples are also widely used.