Curd snack, cottage cheese bar or curd cheese bar is a type of sweet dairy product made from glazed or unglazed curd cheese with or without filling. Nowadays curd snacks are popular in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and Eastern Europe (Belarus, Russia and Ukraine), as well as Hungary (Túró Rudi), Romania, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.

Curd snack

Cross-section of a chocolate-glazed curd snack with poppy seeds
Alternative names	Cottage cheese bar or curd cheese bar
Type	Dairy product
Region or state	Baltic states and Eastern Europe
Main ingredients	Curd cheese and sugar
Ingredients generally used	Various glazes and fillings
Variations	Túró Rudi
Food energy (per serving)	350 kcal (1465 kJ)
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Production

The main part of a curd snack is made from curd cheese, which is mixed with sugar, sweeteners or other ingredients and milled into a homogenous paste that is pressed into the desired shape and filled with jam or other fillings. The formed bars then pass through the so-called 'glaze waterfall' that coats them in chocolate or another type of glaze. Finally, the curd snacks are cooled in a cooling tunnel and packed.[1]

History

The mass production of curd snacks began in the 1950s in Soviet Union and they quickly gained popularity. Initially, they were flavoured with simple ingredients, such as vanilla, cocoa and raisins, but since the 1990s the curd snacks have become more varied and also contain ingredients such as cookie bites, apricot, strawberry jam and boiled condensed milk.[2]

In 2012, Kārums curd snack was voted the favorite product by the Latvian consumers, receiving 20% of the votes.[3]

See also

• Twinkie
• Gansito

References

External links

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