Cinnamon Blintzes To Freeze Recipes

CINNAMON BLINTZES

Steps:

• Trim bread crusts and, using a rolling pin, flatten crustless bread slices.
• Cream together cream cheese, egg yolks, white sugar.
• Spread cream cheese mixture thinly on bread.
• Roll up.
• Dip each roll in melted margarine, then in brown sugar/cinnamon mixture.
• Freeze on cookie sheet.
• Store in ziploc bags.
• To bake, take desired number of blintzes from freezer.
• Do not thaw.
• Put on cookie sheet.
• Bake at 350 degrees 15-20 minutes.

GRANDMA REILKOFF'S AUTHENTIC RUSSIAN BLINTZE

Steps:

• Batter should be quite runny (compared to pancake batter, say). Use a HOT (but not quite smoking) non-stick pan, covering the bottom of the pan thinly with batter. Lift pan and spread batter to edges as best you can.
• When the edges start to brown, fold in half and remove from pan.
• Continue making one blintze per pan until batter is finished (use a couple of pans if needed).
• NOTE: **If blintzes don't easily remove from pan, add another tablespoon of oil to the batter. The temperature of your pan may also be at play - it needs to be quite hot.

CINNAMON BLINTZES TO FREEZE

Steps:

• Sift together flour, salt, baking powder, and powdered sugar.
• In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs. Add the milk, water, and vanilla.
• Make a well in the dry ingredients and add the liquid ingredients. Stir until combined. Ignore the lumps- they will take care of themselves.
• Refrigerate for 2-3 hours or overnight.
• Stir out any remaining lumps.
• Spray a 5-7 inch skillet with nonstick cooking spray. Heat (but not so that crepe will brown) Pour in a thin layer of batter until the bottom of the skillet is covered. When crepe stars to bubble, use fingers to flip over. Cook for another minute or so then cool on a clean dish towel.
• Store cooled crepes between 6x6-inch squares of waxed paper.
• Mix cottage cheese, cinnamon, and sugar to taste.
• Fill crepes. Roll up, folding in the edges (like a burrito). Wrap in wax paper. Freeze.