Sand cake with cottage cheese is a very delicate and delicious dessert. This dough is kneading easily and quickly, so everyone can cook this delicacy. In addition, such cakes can be frozen, and you can make it in advance. This article provides interesting recipes for such a dessert.
Classic version of cookies with cottage cheese
Soft sand cakes and tender sweet cottage cheese simply melt in your mouth, and ease of preparation allows you to make this treat at any time. So you will need:
- 250 grams of unsalted butter;
- 250 grams of white sugar;
- 2 large eggs;
- 500 grams of cottage cheese;
- 20 ml of vanilla essence;
- 3 packs of shortbread square cookies (do not use broken ones);
- 170 ml of berry syrup.
How to cook such a treat?
This cake is made of shortcrust pastry and cottage cheese.
Add melted butter and sugar to the cream. Pour in beaten eggs. Beat well with a wooden spoon. Add cottage cheese and vanilla essence and mix well until the whole mixture is smooth. Strong whipping can make it too fluid, so do not overdo it.
Lay out 9 cookies on a large piece of oiled foil in a square shape. Wrap the foil around the edges to form the sides. Spread a third of the curd mixture over the cookies, brush with berry syrup, then lay one layer of cookies. Repeat these layers again and finish re-laying the cookies. Wrap the edges of the foil over the dessert and put everything in the freezer. As soon as the filling cools and hardens, remove and serve.
Keep this shortbread cake with cottage cheese in the freezer, not in the refrigerator, otherwise it will become too soft. You do not need to completely thaw it, or it will start to fall apart. If you don’t like the appearance of a simple cookie on top, you can cover the dessert with chocolate icing or decorate with something else. For this purpose, whipped cream, thin tricks of syrup or pieces of fruit and berries are suitable.
Gluten free option
Almost everyone loves to enjoy flour sweets, but with gluten intolerance there are problems with available desserts. However, there are recipes for a gluten-free curd cheese cake. In the filling of such a dessert, you can add raisins, as well as cinnamon and a little lemon zest and vanilla. The most important thing is a gentle crumbly dough and a thick layer of soft and airy cottage cheese, whipped into a fine texture.
This sandwich cake with cottage cheese can be baked in both rectangular and round shapes. For its preparation, the usual baking dish is suitable, but the problem will be the safe removal of the product from it. This can only be done when the pastries have completely cooled. So you will need the following:
- 150 grams of gluten-free flour (buckwheat or oatmeal);
- 50 grams of sugar;
- 5 grams of vanilla sugar;
- 70 grams of unsalted butter;
- 40 grams of sour cream with 40% fat.
For curd filling:
- 450 grams of cottage cheese, best homemade;
- 20 ml of lemon juice;
- 110 grams of sugar (if you prefer very sweet pastries, add an additional 15-20 grams of sugar);
- 2 large eggs;
- 100 grams of sour cream with 20% fat;
- 20 grams of corn starch;
- 40 grams of sifted almond flour;
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest;
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
Cooking Gluten Free Curd Cake
Study this simple recipe with a photo beforehand. A gluten-free curd shortcake is made like this. Combine buckwheat or oatmeal with sugar in a deep bowl. Add the butter, cut into slices, and rub it with your hands into the flour mixture until the mass looks like small peas. Pour in sour cream, mix all the ingredients into the dough, form a ball. Put it on a surface lightly sprinkled with flour and begin to roll into one layer. Gently transfer it to the prepared baking dish (oiled), carefully distribute it on the bottom and sides. Refrigerate.
Make curd filling at this time. To do this, mix corn and almond flour. In another bowl, combine lemon juice and zest, vanilla, sour cream and cottage cheese, mix all the ingredients thoroughly. In the third container, beat the eggs with sugar until pale and double in volume.
Add beaten eggs to the soft curd mixture, first 2-3 tablespoons, constantly stirring, then everything else. Mix the mass well with a whisk or whisk with a mixer to get a delicate texture. Add a mixture of dry ingredients. Stir everything very carefully. The resulting mass will be very liquid. Pour it into the chilled dough evenly.
Place the dish in a large baking sheet and bake in the oven preheated to 170 ° C for 50-60 minutes. The filling will increase in size during cooking. After the sand cake with cottage cheese is ready, leave it in shape for five minutes. After that, transfer the dessert to a board or plate and wait until its temperature reaches room temperature and the structure becomes more solid. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
How to make a dessert beautiful?
If you are preparing a cake for serving on the festive table, decorate it with fresh berries and slices of fruit and pour thin trickles of syrup. In addition, this filling goes well with whipped cream. Thus, you can make a sand cake with cottage cheese and fruits, making a simple dessert a luxurious decoration on the table. You can use bananas, peaches, pears, and so on. It is possible to add canned fruits (pineapples, lychees, apricots), but in this case, syrup must be carefully drained from them. Otherwise, your cake will get wet and begin to fall apart.
Shortcake Lemon Cake
This shortcrust pastry cake with cottage cheese has a delicate texture and a sour taste. It can be prepared both on the festive table, and just for dinner. For him you will need:
- 3 large eggs;
- 1 1/4 cup white sugar;
- 2 glasses of cottage cheese;
- 1/4 cup lemon juice;
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel;
- 1/4 cup melted unsalted butter.
For the test:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour;
- 1/3 cup confectionery sugar;
- 1 bag of baking powder;
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel;
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel;
- half a glass of cold butter, cubes.
Additionally:
- large confectionery sugar;
- fresh raspberries.
Cooking Lemon Dessert
Leave the eggs at room temperature for thirty minutes. Preheat the oven at the same time to 190 ° C. Beat eggs, sugar, lemon juice and orange zest. Continuing to beat, mix with cottage cheese and butter until smooth. Set aside.
To prepare the dough, mix the first six ingredients in a food processor until the mixture forms a ball. Lay the resulting dough on the bottom and sides of the split mold.
Pour the lemon mixture into the mold. Bake until the center of the cake is firm. It takes 25-30 minutes. Remove the dessert from the mold and cool. Sprinkle with large confectionery sugar and garnish with raspberries.
Option without eggs with strawberries
Sand cake with cottage cheese and berries has been known for a very long time. His recipe is found in 19th century cookbooks. Today, such desserts are also popular. Decorated with whipped cream and berries, this cake will be the highlight of any table. Below is an egg-free shortcrust pastry that everyone will love. So, you need the following.
For the test:
- one and a half glasses of flour plus for rolling;
- 1 1/4 cup granulated sugar;
- 1 1/4 teaspoon of tea baking powder;
- 1/2 tsp salts;
- 1 tsp vanilla extract;
- 3/4 cup whipped yogurt;
- 3/4 cup of whole milk at room temperature;
- 1/2 tsp finely grated lemon peel;
- 5 tablespoons melted butter unsalted butter.
For filling:
- 2 cups of strawberries;
- 1 tbsp. l strawberry syrup;
- 1 sachet of gelatin;
- 1 tbsp. l lemon juice;
- half a glass of fat cream;
- a glass of fat cottage cheese;
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract.
Cooking strawberry-curd dessert
Preheat your oven to 180 degrees. Lubricate the round shape with oil, cover it with parchment paper and sprinkle with flour.
Take a large bowl, add dry ingredients for the dough to it, mix well. In a different container, combine all the wet components and beat until the mixture is smooth. Then mix the contents of the two bowls and mix very well. You should have a completely homogeneous dough. Put it in a mold and bake for 35-40 minutes.
When the cake is ready, remove it from the oven, let it cool directly in the mold for 10 minutes, then shift it onto a rack for further cooling.
How to make the filling?
While the dough is cooling, prepare the filling. Do not forget that you make a shortbread cake with cottage cheese and jelly, so carefully monitor all the blanks during the preparation process. Wash and dry the strawberries, remove the stems, cut the berries into halves. Approximately 15-17 pieces will be enough. Take 1 tbsp. l water, mix with strawberry syrup , beat well, heat and dissolve the gelatin in the mixture. Dip in the same halves of strawberries and mix well. Do not let the mixture begin to harden prematurely, keep it in a warm place.
Cut thinly the remaining strawberries, mix with confectionery sugar and lemon juice in a separate bowl.
Whip cream and cottage cheese with 1 tbsp. l confectionery sugar and vanilla extract to soft peaks. Chill immediately. Now it's time to collect the cake.
How to make a cake?
Cut the cake in half horizontally with a serrated knife. Place the bottom half in a split mold. Add a thin layer of strawberries with lemon juice and sugar, and then put a thick layer of curd-cream mixture. Place in the refrigerator for a while until the curd mass is frozen. Pour the mixture of strawberries with syrup and gelatin from above, set to re-cool until completely solidified. Put a thin layer of curd cream on top and cover with the second half of the cake. Garnish with the remnants of whipped cottage cheese with cream, whole berries. Serve chilled dessert.