Many homemade pastry lovers know that it’s not necessary to use many complex ingredients to make a delicious dessert. Often, based on the usual products stored in each refrigerator, you can bake a deliciously delicious pie.
For example, using ordinary dairy products, you can cook several versions of homemade pie from cottage cheese and sour cream, and each will have its own unique taste.
Features of cottage cheese filling
There is a small trick so that the filling does not turn out moist, you can add a spoonful of pudding powder. Well, or ordinary potato starch, the effect will be no worse.
In order to make the texture of the cottage cheese and sour cream pie soft and airy, you need to forget a little about calorie content and choose fresh cottage cheese with a fat content of at least 15%.
In order for pastries with curd filling not to fall, you need not to get the cake straight out of the oven, but hold it there until it is completely cooled.
Rustic curd pie
This is one of the most simple homemade cottage cheese recipes. However, despite its lightness, the cake turns out to be appetizing and nutritious.
For cooking you will need:
- flour - about 150 g;
- butter - 125 g;
- sugar - 1 cup (half for the dough, the rest for the filling).
- baking powder - half a teaspoon;
- cottage cheese (fat content not less than 15%) - 500 g;
- sour cream - 1 glass;
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- vanilla sugar - 1 teaspoon.
You can add raisins or finely chopped dried fruits to the filling. Although this recipe for a pie with cottage cheese and sour cream is good without additional ingredients.
For the test, slightly softened butter should be ground with half the sugar. Sift flour, mix with baking powder and add to the butter-sugar mixture. Rub everything gently with your hands, the resulting crumb will become the basis for the dessert.
Mash the cottage cheese thoroughly with a fork (or beat in a blender) until it turns into a homogeneous mass. Add sour cream, egg yolks and mix everything.
Beat the remaining proteins with sugar in a strong foam. They must first be cooled, and it is better to add sugar little by little, otherwise the foam may not work. Very carefully introduce the beaten egg foam into the filling, being careful not to destroy the air bubbles.
In the prepared form, lay out most of the dough, put the curd-protein mass on top and sprinkle with the remaining dough.
In a oven preheated to 180 degrees, a pie of cottage cheese and sour cream will be baked for 25-30 minutes. Before serving, it is better to cool it a little.
Chocolate lovers
Based on the previous recipe, you can bake a chocolate-curd cake, the taste of which will not disappoint homemade sweet tooth.
To the main ingredients for the dough you need to add cocoa, about 4 tablespoons. You need to add it together with flour and make sure that the cocoa is evenly mixed.
To tint the taste of chocolate, you can put a little more vanilla sugar. If you want to enjoy a new taste of pie with sour cream and cottage cheese each time, try adding a little seedless cherry, sliced banana or coconut flakes to the filling. Such experiments will not only give the cake a unique flavor, but also allow you to feel like an experienced chef.
Berry abundance
In the summer, when the variety of seasonal berries makes you dizzy, it's time to cook a delicious pie with cottage cheese, sour cream and berries. You can choose any berries - currants, blueberries, cherries, blackberries, only tender strawberries and raspberries will not work.
For the test you will need:
- flour - 200 g;
- butter - 150 g;
- sugar - 100 g;
- egg;
- baking powder
For filling:
- fat cottage cheese - 500 g;
- sour cream - 100 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- sugar - 100 g;
- seasonal berries to taste - 300 g.
For the dough, it is better to sift the flour to get rid of lumps, and mix it with a baking powder. Cut the butter pre-cooled in the freezer into small pieces and grind with flour. Add sugar, beat in an egg, knead the dough and let it cool for about half an hour.
While the dough is cooling, you can do the filling: grind the cottage cheese until smooth with a fork or with a blender. The more homogeneous the curd is, the more tender the pie will be. Add the rest of the products to the curd, except berries, and mix until smooth.
For a pie of cottage cheese, sour cream and eggs, a form with high sides is required. Put the dough into a mold and align it at the edges. Gently pour the fill and place the berries on top. Some culinary experts advise adding berries immediately to the filling, but then a separate delicate taste of cottage cheese and contrasting sourness of the berries disappear.
Bake dessert at a temperature of 180 degrees for about 35-40 minutes. Often time depends on the individual characteristics of the oven. Before you get the cake out of the mold, you need to cool it.
Curd and berry pleasure guaranteed!
Curd dessert in a slow cooker
Such a pie turns out to be very airy, it literally melts in your mouth. The secret is that baking in a slow cooker is more juicy due to the fact that the bowl retains moisture inside the product. This contributes to a longer baking time, about two hours, so the dough is baked evenly.
To make a pie with cottage cheese and sour cream filling of 150 grams of melted butter, 100 grams of sugar, 250 grams of flour and one egg, you need to knead the elastic dough. Do not forget to add a little baking powder to the flour. Put the dough on the bottom of the multicooker and form the sides.
For sour cream filling, beat 300 grams of cottage cheese and sour cream in a blender. Add 3 eggs, 100 grams of sugar and vanilla sugar and beat thoroughly again. Pour the fill onto the dough and set to cook in the “Baking” mode for about 2 hours.
If desired, you can add berries or pieces of fruit to the filling.
Summer cake without baking
On hot days, when you don’t want to turn on the oven at all, a simple recipe for a pie with cottage cheese and sour cream without baking will help out. Just a couple of hours in the refrigerator - and an amazing dessert is ready! And for it you can use any berries that are at hand.
For the filling you will need:
- cottage cheese - 200 g;
- not very thick sour cream - 200 g;
- milk - 100 ml;
- white chocolate - 100 g;
- gelatin - about 10 g;
- any berries to taste - about 200 g.
For the base, take 100 grams of corn flakes and milk chocolate and 70 g butter. Melt the butter and chocolate in a water bath and mix with cereal. Cover the silicone mold with this mixture, forming high sides. Put the base to cool.
Soak gelatin in 50 ml of warm water and leave to swell. In a blender at low speed mix the cottage cheese with sugar. Dissolve gelatin in boiling milk. Very carefully introduce this mixture into the curd mass.
Add sour cream and melted white chocolate. Mix everything thoroughly so that there are no lumps left. Lay a layer of berries on the base, large ones can be cut into pieces. Top with cottage cheese and chocolate mousse and put in the refrigerator for several hours. Having spent the minimum amount of effort, you will get a delicious delicate pie with the taste of berry ice cream.
Egg-free curd cake
For those who prefer a healthy diet, but are not ready to give up sweets, a recipe for cottage cheese pie and sour cream without eggs is suitable.
For such a pie you will need:
- homemade cottage cheese - 500 g;
- semolina - 5 tablespoons;
- sour cream - 8 tablespoons;
- 2 very ripe bananas;
- honey to taste.
Grind the cottage cheese until smooth. Grind bananas separately. Stir all the components of the cake, put in a mold and bake for about 30 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Tip: the pie will be more interesting if you add pieces of dried apricots or prunes to the dough.
Unsweetened pie with greens
Surprisingly, a bulk cake of cottage cheese and sour cream can be made completely unsweetened. The filling in this independent dish will be dense home-made cottage cheese (200 grams) and a large bunch of greens (onions, dill, spinach that you want). Still need a little butter, in which you need to let the greens. While it cools, you need to divide the cottage cheese into small pieces.
It is not for nothing that the cake is called bulk, the dough for it needs liquid, as for fritters. Interestingly, in addition to wheat flour, cooks recommend the use of rye flour and oatmeal.
For the test:
- sour cream - 200 g;
- kefir (it can be replaced with mayonnaise) - 200 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- wheat flour - 5 tablespoons;
- rye flour and oatmeal - 2 tablespoons each;
- caraway seeds - 0.5 teaspoon;
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
- salt to taste
Beat eggs well with a whisk. Add to them all other components and mix thoroughly. The oiled form can be sprinkled with sesame seeds. Pour about half of the dough into a mold, put greens on it, and gently spread the cottage cheese on top. For fans of spicy, ground pepper and salt can be added to the filling.
Gently pour the remaining dough from above, sprinkle it with sesame seeds and put into the oven for about 45 minutes until golden brown. This delicious crust is clearly visible in the photo of the pie with cottage cheese and sour cream.
Cottage cheese and sour cream desserts
On the basis of these healthy products, you can cook not only a variety of pies. For example, for a quick family breakfast, you can bake cottage cheese casserole with pieces of fruit and berries.
A cake of cottage cheese and raisins or dried apricots is very tasty. By the way, from the curd dough you can make small muffins stuffed with sour cream, chocolate and berries.
Creating culinary masterpieces in your own kitchen is not at all difficult, it takes a little imagination and a desire to feast on something tasty!