Irresistible Cottage Cheese Cake

So soft and crumbly. Divine dessert! The cottage cheese cake turns out very appetizing, you can’t tear yourself away from it. You can change the fruit filling and try different shades of taste. Serve with tea or coffee.
cook time: 1h 30 min
Hazel Farrow
Irresistible Cottage Cheese Cake

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

293
Calories
15g
Fat
28g
Carbs
11g
Protein

Ingredients (6 portions)

The basis:

Cookie 200 g
Walnuts 50 g
Butter 30 g
Sugar 1 tbsp

Filling:

Sugar 100 g
Cottage cheese 450 g
Eggs 2 pc
Applesauce 50 g
Vanilla sugar 1 tbsp

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make cottage cheese cake? Prepare all the necessary ingredients for the cake base.

Step 2

Step 2
Place the broken cookies, nuts, chopped butter and sugar into the blender bowl. You can take any cookies you like, I have sugar cookies. You can replace walnuts, for example, with peanuts or hazelnuts.

Step 3

Step 3
Beat everything into a fine, slightly damp crumbly crumb.

Step 4

Step 4
Take a baking pan and line it with parchment paper (I have a 25 x 25 cm pan). Place half of the cookie crumbs, smooth with a silicone spatula and compact well. You will learn all the subtleties of choosing parchment by reading the article at the end of the recipe.

Step 5

Step 5
Bake the crust in an oven preheated to 180°C for about 15 minutes. The times are approximate, be guided by the operating characteristics of your oven. Read more about ovens in the article at the end of the recipe.

Step 6

Step 6
Prepare all the ingredients for the filling. Take fresh, high-quality cottage cheese. You will learn all the subtleties of choosing cottage cheese by reading an article on this topic. There is a link to it at the end of this recipe.

Step 7

Step 7
Combine cottage cheese, eggs, sugar and vanillin in a bowl. If your cottage cheese is grainy, then rub it through a sieve or punch it with an immersion blender, this will make the cake more tender. How to replace vanillin, read the article below the steps.

Step 8

Step 8
Beat everything with a mixer until smooth.

Step 9

Step 9
Place half of the curd mixture onto the crust.

Step 10

Step 10
Smooth out carefully.

Step 11

Step 11
Add fruit puree to the remaining cottage cheese. I used peach puree for baby food. This puree can be of any flavor or you can prepare it yourself from any non-watery fruit.

Step 12

Step 12
Place the curd-fruit mixture on top of the white layer of cottage cheese and smooth it out, being careful not to let the layers mix with each other.

Step 13

Step 13
Sprinkle the remaining crumbs on top.

Step 14

Step 14
Place in the oven for another 40 minutes. Let the baked goods cool, cut into portions and serve the cake with curd filling made in the oven to the table with hot aromatic coffee, tea or cocoa. Bon appetit!

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