The Best Sweet Cheese Blintzes with Claire Saffitz | Dessert Person

The Best Sweet Cheese Blintzes with Claire Saffitz | Dessert Person Special thanks to our sponsor Made In Cookware for this video - Visit https://madein.cc/claire10 to check out all of their cookware, and subscribe to their YouTube Channel for more recipe inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/@MadeInCookware #clairesaffitz #dessert #recipe Although I consider making blintzes my birthright, I had never actually made—or even eaten!—a blintz until I worked on this book. Blintzes, for the uninitiated, are a Jewish dessert made of an eggy crepe-like pancake that’s filled with a sweetened mixture of cream cheese and farmer cheese and pan-fried until the pancake is golden brown. My mom used to help her mother, my Nanny, make blintzes when she was a child. Nanny would stand at the stove manning two skillets, cooking the pancakes two at a time. She’d bang them out onto the counter, which was lined with brown paper bags, fill and fold them up, and then pack the blintzes into a shoebox lined with wax paper and freeze them. Ingredients: LEMONY APRICOT COMPOTE 8 ounces (227g) dried apricots, coarsely chopped (about 1 3⁄4 cups) 2 tablespoons honey Pinch of kosher salt 1 medium lemon PANCAKE BATTER 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour (5.4 oz / 152g) 4 large eggs (7 oz / 200g), at room temperature 1 cup whole milk (8.5 oz / 240g), at room temperature 5 tablespoons unsalted butter (2.5 oz / 71g), melted and cooled 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt or 1⁄2 teaspoon Morton kosher salt FILLING AND ASSEMBLY 16 ounces (454g) farmer cheese, chilled 8 ounces (227g) cream cheese, cut into 1⁄2-inch pieces, chilled 1 large egg (1.8 oz / 50g) 3 tablespoons sugar 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract Pinch of kosher salt 6 tablespoons unsalted butter (3 oz / 85g), melted and cooled Honey, for serving Shop The Made In Enameled Cast Iron Set: https://madein.cc/claire-eci-set Shop The Made In Enameled Cast Iron Skillet: https://madein.cc/claire-eci-skillet What's for Dessert by Claire Saffitz is out now: https://geni.us/WjcIbfp Dessert Person Online: https://www.dessertperson.com/ Claire on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/csaffitz/?h... Claire Merchandise: https://www.dessertperson.com/buystuff Penguin Random House Books: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/ Video Series: Producer/Director: Vincent Cross Camera Operator: Calvin Robertson Theme Song: Michael Guggino Editor: Hal McFall Animation Credits: Character Designer/Animator: Jack Sherry Character Rigger: Johara Dutton Background/Prop Designer: M. Cody Wiley Background Illustrator: Jagriti Khirwar