Cottage cheese cake

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

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

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.

3. STEP 3

   

   Beat everything into a fine, slightly damp crumbly crumb.

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, level 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.

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.

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.

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.

8. STEP 8

   

   Beat everything with a mixer until smooth.

9. STEP 9

   

   Place half of the curd mixture onto the crust.

10. STEP 10

    

    Smooth out carefully.

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.

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.

13. STEP 13

    

    Sprinkle the remaining crumbs on top.

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!

Comments on the recipe

Lesya

25.09.2023

4.9

I will share more of these cakes with apple jam.

Alya

25.09.2023

4.5

These cheesecakes turned out great! Thanks to the author! The main taster - the husband - said that these were the most delicious shortbread cakes. The first thing you notice (even before you take a bite) is the nutty-buttery aroma. Delicate curd filling combined with strawberry jam from fresh strawberry puree, which I added instead of apple puree, only embellished this “song”. That’s why my curd cakes also have strawberry flavor. The cakes come out soft, although heavy. Since I did not have a square shape like the author, but had a glass one with a larger diameter, I added another 50 g of cookies and 20 g of nuts and increased the amount of butter to 80 g. I added 500 g of cottage cheese, and also a little more puree. I have an electric oven, so in my case it is better to reduce the residence time of the assembled pie from 40 to 30 minutes. This way it will dry out less and will be juicier.