Cheese sticks with sesame – snacks with cheese

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 160 g butter
• 100 g Cheddar cheese or other cheese, grated
• 1 tsp sesame seeds
• 250 g flour
• 1 tsp sweet paprika powder
• ¼ tsp pepper
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 tbsp mustard, hot
• 100 ml cream
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 tbsp milk
• Sesame, caraway, coarse sea salt, cheese

Instructions

Working time approx. 15 minutes; Rest time approx. 1 hour; Cooking/baking time approx. 20 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 35 minutes

for 1 tray

First, cream together room-temperature butter with grated cheese and sesame seeds. I like to use Cheddar cheese because of its strong flavor. You could also use Gouda, Emmental, or Parmesan. Then add the dry ingredients to the cheese mixture: flour, sweet paprika, pepper, and salt. To ensure the cheese is evenly distributed throughout the dough, the ingredients should be mixed together while dry beforehand. Then add the mustard and cream. If you like the sticks a little crispier, omit the cream. Once the dough is smooth, wrap it in cling film and place it in the refrigerator for about an hour to rest. This firms up the butter in the dough and creates a dough that can be rolled out. After an hour in the refrigerator, roll out the dough to a thickness of about 1 cm and cut into strips. These strips should be as large as you like your cheese sticks to be. The dough strips are then placed on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and brushed with a mixture of egg and milk. This helps the sesame seeds adhere to the sticks, giving them a beautiful shine during baking. Sprinkle the sticks with sesame seeds or, if you like, add caraway seeds, salt, cheese, or herbs. Then bake the sticks in a preheated oven at 170°C for 15-20 minutes. While warm, the sticks are relatively soft, but become firm and crispy as they cool. If they’ve softened again the next day, you can reheat them for a few minutes.