Blintz “Soufflé”

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Richard Sax

Published 1994

  • About

Blintzes are the Jewish pancakes that are rolled and folded around a sweetened cheese filling, then browned in butter. They’re served for breakfast or for a dairy (nonmeat) supper. Russian blinchiki are close cousins.

This innovative spin on tradition takes the same flavors and ingredients and transforms them into a creamy “soufflé”—capturing all the buttery flavor of traditional blintzes, but without the hassle of rolling and frying, or even of beating egg whites. This lusci