Czech Pastry Cottage Cheese Kolacky

Let butter soften in a bowl.

When very soft mix butter and cottage cheese together.

Add salt and sugar.

Add flour last and mix by hand. To get dough to the consistency of pie dough.

Put the dough in wax paper in the refrigerator overnight.

If you want to bake it today leave the dough in the refrigerator at least for 3 hours.

Then take it out and divide it into 3 parts.

Take 1 part of the dough and put it on a floured table. Flatten the dough to a 1/8 of inch thick.

Then take a small juice glass and cut round circle in the dough. (Put some flour on the rim of the glass if the dough start to stick). Take your thumb and make a dent in the middle of the dough. Fill it with apricot or any jam.

Bake at 350 for about 15-20 minutes or until lightly brown.