Chocolate Cherry Cottage Cheese Pie

A delicate curd layer and juicy cherries will win your heart! The pie turns out tender, crumbly and moderately sweet, so if you like it sweeter, you can slightly increase the amount of sugar in the dough or filling. Help yourself!
cook time: 1h 30 min
Liam Carson
Chocolate Cherry Cottage Cheese Pie

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

287
Calories
15g
Fat
38g
Carbs
9g
Protein

Ingredients (9 portions)

For dough:

Wheat flour 230 g
Powdered sugar 40 g
Cocoa 15 g
Butter 115 g
Egg yolks 1 pc
Sour cream 1 tbsp
Baking powder 0.5 tsp

For the curd layer:

Egg yolks 1 pc
Cottage cheese 300 g
Sugar 3 tbsp
Vanilla sugar 1 tsp
Starch 1 tbsp

For the cherry layer:

Sugar to taste
Starch 1 tbsp
Cherry 150 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
Dough ingredients

Step 2

Step 2
Sift flour, cocoa, powdered sugar and baking powder into the bowl of a food processor.

Step 3

Step 3
Add cold butter cut into small pieces and quickly rub everything until crumbly.

Step 4

Step 4
Add the yolk and 1 tbsp to the butter crumbs. l. sour cream. Mix, we should get a moist crumb that easily gathers into a lump, if the mixture turns out dry, add a little sour cream.

Step 5

Step 5
Collect the resulting wet crumbs into a ball.

Step 6

Step 6
Divide the dough into 2 parts, one part should be larger than the other. Place the dough in the refrigerator for 15 — 20 minutes (or better yet, longer).

Step 7

Step 7
Ingredients for filling.

Step 8

Step 8
Add sugar, vanilla sugar and egg yolk to the cottage cheese and mix.

Step 9

Step 9
Add a spoonful of starch (semolina or flour), mix until smooth.

Step 10

Step 10
Squeeze the juice from the cherries, add starch and, if desired, sugar (I did not add), mix.

Step 11

Step 11
Assembling the pie. Roll out most of the dough and place it in the mold, forming low sides.

Step 12

Step 12
Place the curd filling on top.

Step 13

Step 13
Place cherries on the cottage cheese. If the sides turn out to be high, then we trim them.

Step 14

Step 14
We grate a smaller part of the dough (to make the dough easier to grate, place it in the freezer for 15 minutes) and level it over the surface of the pie. Bake the cake at 180 C for about 45 minutes. Let the finished pie cool completely and only then cut it.

Step 15

Step 15
Bon appetit!

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