Everyone knows that cottage cheese is useful as an excellent source of calcium and protein. However, not everyone loves him. Another thing is glazed cheese. This is a popular delicacy from the dairy department, which is to the taste of both adults and children. Such an alternative way of using cottage cheese would be good if it weren’t for a few “buts”: like store yoghurts, purchased cheeses contain a lot of impurities, flavorings, flavor enhancers, and only a small part of the cottage cheese we need. What to do? Opt out of this product? Not at all necessary. You just need to learn how to cook glazed curds yourself.
Why buy if you can make at home?
If you think that it is very difficult to repeat the store cheese glazed with chocolate at home, then you are mistaken. In fact, you can not only cook a treat very similar in taste and appearance, but also make it much more healthy. The main thing is to get good cottage cheese, and even better - to get a natural rural product. Then your glazed curd will contain a storehouse of vitamins and have an unusually delicate taste. So let's get started.
Easy and fast cooking
Products necessary for homemade cheese: cottage cheese (500 grams), sugar (1-2 tablespoons), a little oil (about 100 grams) and vanilla. It is best to grind sugar into powder so that it does not crack on the teeth. We mix all the ingredients, and from the resulting mass we form small “logs”. They need to be laid out on a flat plate and put in the freezer to freeze. In the meantime, proceed to the glaze.
The finishing touch is glaze
For homemade chocolate icing, take 2 large tablespoons of cocoa and 4 tablespoons of sugar and sour cream. Mix and heat these ingredients in a water bath to make a homogeneous mass. Density can be adjusted by adding water or milk. We cool the resulting chocolate sauce and pour it over the frozen cheese. Now they need to be put back in the freezer. After a while, you can check out our homemade cheesecakes, glazed with chocolate. In appearance, they can hardly be distinguished from store ones, and cooked houses undoubtedly win in taste.
Home assortment
You will say that there is such a variety of flavors and fillings on sale that home-made glazed curd cheese will get bored quickly. What prevents you from expanding your own assortment? When preparing the curd mass, you can add coconut flakes, chopped nuts, hide the berries inside, pieces of dried fruit, make a filling of jam or boiled condensed milk, chocolate cream, mix with cocoa. You can form a cottage cheese "log" and place it on cookies, and then pour with chocolate. As you can see, there are no less opportunities to experiment at home.
How to make it tastier?
Some useful tips to make your glazed curd even tastier. The curd base is best not just mixed, but whipped with a mixer. Then the product will turn out more airy and gentle. Icing is not necessary to cook from cocoa, you can buy a bar of bitter, milk or even white chocolate and just melt it in a water bath - it’s faster and tastier. If you are going to eat cheese at once, then you can add a little cream to the curd. For young children, the best fillings are berries and dried fruits, while for adults and adolescents the assortment can be expanded. Glazed curd cheese or homemade cottage cheese delicacy - what do you choose?