RUSSIAN CHOCOLATE VATRUSHKI | CHOCOLATE CREAM CHEESE BUNS

Hi guys! Hello everyone! Welcome to my kitchen, Alla's Yummy Food. I'm Alla, the host of the show, Love Dian. Today I'm going to show you how to make these delicious, fluffy chocolate vatrushki. Vatrushki are really amazing buns stuffed with cream cheese and cottage cheese filling. They're so amazing! I decided to make these with a chocolate cottage cheese cream cheese filling and a hidden chocolate scent for those who are obsessed with chocolate. I absolutely love them. They're so popular all over Eastern Europe, Russia, Latvia and all the Baltic states. It was actually my childhood sort of snack that I used to get at school and I really wanted to show you how to make the chocolate version because I love chocolate sometimes. Guys, you can get access to all my recipes just below this video on my website. You can become a member and get access to all 500 video recipes with no ads and a searchable library. Let's get baking! Into your jug, add lukewarm milk and make sure it's not hot or cold. Then add half of your sugar mixture, mix everything through and then add your dry yeast. You can use instant yeast or dry yeast, whichever yeast you have at home. Mix it through and we're going to leave it aside to activate. Once your yeast has activated you want to add your eggs, sour cream and melted cold butter. Make sure it's unsalted. Mix everything through and then lastly add vanilla extract. Now over here I've got my flour and the remaining sugar and a little bit of salt. I'm just gonna start mixing it with a dough hook in my attachment and slowly adding my wet mixture. Don't forget to use your spatula and go around the sides as the flour usually gets stuck there. Keep mixing as you add your wet mixture. By the way guys I'm making a double portion here so you don't need to make this many it makes a lot a lot a lot so I'm gonna give you half of the ingredients for this recipe. So keep adding your flour a little bit at a time until your mixture is all incorporated. The dough will be very, very soft and sticky, just like this. Use oiled hands or wet hands or floured hands to get rid of your dough from your hook and then add a little bit of flour onto your counter and you want to knead your dough by hand a couple of more times. Keep adding lots of flour as you roll it out as the dough is still sticky so you will need more. Don't over add the flour though as the dough will become very, very starchy. Once the dough is nice and folded a couple of times, as I said, it will still be sticky. Don't worry about it. You will need to leave it to proof. So add a little bit of oil into your bowl and add your dough. You're going to add cling film over the bowl to make sure that the yeast can raise and leave it in a really nice warm place. While our dough is raising. We're going to make our delicious cream cheese chocolate filling. So in a bowl add your cream cheese together with cottage cheese. I'm using dry cottage cheese so make sure you use the dry one. You can also use ricotta, quark or farmer's cheese. Then add vanilla extract, sugar and egg. And then you want to add your cocoa powder, unsweetened, and melted dark chocolate. Then I'm going to blitz everything. If you don't have a hand blender, just use your whisk or your hands and just make sure everything is nice and smooth. You want to do this until all the ingredients are incorporated and the mixture is nice and chocolatey, just like this. After about hour and a half my dough has risen and pretty much tripled in size I'm just gonna flatten it out it is very very soft and sticky dough it's easy to work with but you do need to make sure you flour your surface all the time now take your dough and divide it into even amount of pieces I make sure they're good decent size like so and I'm gonna bake 12 at a time once you rolled out your little balls you want to leave it to raise for about half an hour. Then after that you want to oil a smaller glass or something that you can press inside because we're going to be adding our filling in there. So just oil your glass if it becomes sticky again you can just spray a little bit of cooking oil on the back and just keep pressing inside each dough creating a nice little hole. Then take your chocolate filling and you want to add a large tablespoon even two of the filling inside each vatrushka and just keep going until you fill all of them. What I like to do I like to add a little bit of Nutella in there so add a teaspoon of Nutella that I put on top and I also like to add chunks of dark chocolate around. What I do I just push a little bit of chocolate right inside in the middle and then i top it up with more chocolate mixture on top to hide the nutella and chocolate then you want to go around with your egg wash and make sure you go around all the edges and around the sides this will give our vatrushki a very beautiful golden color once they're all done we're going to bake them and you want to make sure they come out nice and golden trust me it's going to be in your house the smell is so amazing once they're done you want to take them out look at them aren't they amazing uh you want to leave them to cool down completely on the cooling rack so stack them up and one secret i want to give you is to butter them that way they will keep their shine so take a little bit of soft butter and put it onto your pastry brush and then just go around each pastry and brush it over lastly you want to add a little bit of icing sugar on top and voila your chocolate trushki are done i'm so excited to show you how they look inside once you cut inside the dough is so soft so airy crunchy on the bottom and just look at that gooey chocolate inside so delicious absolutely amazing for anyone who loves chocolate I really hope you make this recipe. Enjoy!