Pie with cottage cheese and cherries

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make a pie with cottage cheese and cherries? Start with the butter dough. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance; it should become soft. Choose it of the best quality, complying with GOST.

2. STEP 2

   

   Beat soft butter with sugar until fluffy. Do not beat for too long, the butter may begin to separate. Three minutes will be enough.

3. STEP 3

   

   Continuing to beat, add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each. Wash the eggs with baking soda first to remove all dirt.

4. STEP 4

   

   Sift the flour with baking powder and salt and add it to the dough in parts, kneading it after each portion. Remember that you may need a little less or more flour. Focus on the consistency of the dough. Read more about the properties of flour in the article at the end of the recipe.

5. STEP 5

   

   You should get a soft sticky dough. The butter dough is ready.

6. STEP 6

   

   Next prepare the curd dough. Take thicker cottage cheese, from 5% fat content and above, preferably not dry so that there are no lumps. If you only have dry, then add a little sour cream to it. You will learn all the subtleties of choosing cottage cheese by reading an article on this topic. Link at the end of the recipe.

7. STEP 7

   

   First rub the cottage cheese through a sieve or beat with an immersion blender into a homogeneous mass. Combine cottage cheese with sugar, vanilla sugar and eggs.

8. STEP 8

   

   Mix everything thoroughly until smooth. You can use a mixer, or you can use a regular whisk. The curd dough is ready.

9. STEP 9

   

   Prepare the filling. If the cherries are fresh, remove the pits and drain the juice. If frozen, use it without defrosting. I have frozen berries. Instead of corn starch, you can use potato starch.

10. STEP 10

    

    Combine cherries with cornstarch and stir. The filling is ready.

11. STEP 11

    

    All that remains is to assemble the pie. Place the butter dough in a baking dish (mine is 20 cm in diameter) and smooth it out.

12. STEP 12

    

    Pour cottage cheese on top of the butter dough.

13. STEP 13

    

    Place cherries in starch on it. Distribute it evenly. Bake the pie in an oven preheated to 180°C for about 45 minutes. Time and temperature are approximate, be guided by the operating characteristics of your oven. Read about ovens in the article at the end of the recipe.

14. STEP 14

    

    Cool the finished pie, remove from the mold, sprinkle with powdered sugar and cut into pieces. When the pie is still hot, the cottage cheese in the middle may tremble a little. This is fine. As the pie cools, the curd will become denser.

Comments on the recipe

snowjok

31.10.2023

4.7

Delicious! With the addition of cocoa is also a great option.

Natalia M

31.10.2023

4.7

I have long wanted to bake a pie with cottage cheese and cherries, I really like this combination. Usually such pies come with a shortbread base, and I don’t really like shortbread cakes) And this recipe combines everything that I like! I kneaded the dough for the base in the same way as indicated in the description. I had the butter frozen, and in order not to wait too long, I defrosted it in the microwave. To do this, I cut it into small pieces, put it in the microwave and set the “fruit defrosting” mode to 300 g. As a result, perfectly soft and absolutely not liquid butter is ready) The finished dough turned out to look like a good butter cream, it looks very appetizing)) For the curd layer, all products I beat it with an immersion blender, using small eggs so that the filling does not turn out liquid. There weren’t many cherries, I literally removed the last one from the tree and added a handful of red currants. Lightly sprinkle starch mixed with powdered sugar on top. I baked the pie for 55 minutes because I doubled the portion of ingredients. My pie came out big, enough for all the guests) Before serving, I cooled it in the refrigerator, I think this improves the taste of the curd pastry. As for the pie itself: the cake turned out lush, juicy, porous

Veronica

31.10.2023

4.5

Maria, good afternoon, I want to make this wonderful pie. I already have a cherry))) Tell me, what shape did you have in terms of height and diameter? I'm afraid that it won't fit into my standard square pan, in which I make pies all the time. He's so tall in your photo. Thank you!!!

Vasya

31.10.2023

4.6

Shortbread dough ~ 600 Cottage cheese with the taste of baked milk ~ 600 g 2 eggs and sugar everything as in the recipe, frozen cherries 400 g. Made for 1 hour in a gas oven at 180 g. I did not remove the baking tray from below and put water in it. Then I left it in the oven until the morning. In the morning I sprinkled it with sugar powder. Well, it’s very tasty. I made dukhan all over the apartment all night in the evening)))