Baking with cottage cheese is one of the most beloved around the world. Cheesecakes, donuts, pies, muffins, cheesecakes - and this is not a complete list of what can be prepared from it. But, perhaps, most often baked for tea pie from cottage cheese. The recipe for simple and delicious pastries will always be popular. And with a curd filling, an excellent result is simply guaranteed, and you won’t have to mess around for a long time in the kitchen.
Royal cheesecake
This sweet cottage cheese pie is one of the most beloved. To make such a
royal cheesecake is simple and easy, and even everything is made from available products. And with all this, aromatic and tasty pastries are obtained. For the test, combine 200 g of butter (you can use margarine instead), 130 grams of wheat flour, 90 grams of sugar, a teaspoon of soda. Grind everything into crumbs and divide into 2 halves. One - put in a mold (grease it and sprinkle with flour a little). Flatten.
To prepare the filling, you need 500 grams of cottage cheese, 3 eggs, 4-5 tablespoons of sugar and a handful of raisins. Beat eggs and sugar, you can just fork. Add cottage cheese (if it is grains, then rub through a sieve) and raisins washed and dried on a napkin. Stir and carefully lay the filling on top of the crumbs. She will be quite fluid. Flatten and pour out the second half of the dough. Cook in a preheated oven until the cheesecake is lightly browned. Cool and you can serve the cottage cheese pie. Grated in crumbs, it turns out airy and tender. It’s unlikely that anyone can resist it.
Pie with cottage cheese and apricots
This recipe has been specially invented for those who would like to surprise their guests by making easy and just an unusual cake. Shortcrust pastry with cottage cheese is always a win-win combination, and here is also a beautiful cut, thanks to interestingly laid out apricots. Moreover, it does not require any overseas ingredients or standing for hours in the kitchen.
Making the cake begins with the dough. For him, grind 150 g of margarine or butter and a half cup of sugar, beat 3 eggs and beat the mass. Put a bag of baking powder, 350-400 grams of wheat flour and knead a tight dough. It should hold its shape well and not stick to your hands. Put it in a mold (its diameter should be at least 26 cm), level it with your hands and make rather high sides. Put on top halves of canned apricots, peeled up. This is what makes this cottage cheese pie unusual. The recipe is simple but effective.
It remains only to make the filling. Mix 600 g of cottage cheese and 3 chicken eggs, add to the mass of 50 grams of starch and mix. Separately, beat a glass of fat cream, adding 2/3 glasses of sugar and 20 grams of vanilla sugar. Add to cottage cheese and mix well. Pour the filling on top of the apricots and put in the oven the cake tin for 45-50 minutes until the browning of the dough and the filling. Cool completely and you can try the pie with cottage cheese and apricots. By the way, they can be replaced with peaches, plums and other fruits.
Cottage Cheese Pie
There is probably no tastier pie than cottage cheese yeast pie. A simple baking recipe based on such a test cannot but become popular. The main thing is that there is time for proofing and kneading. And it is not necessary to be an experienced chef to make it. Any housewife will cope with this recipe.
For the test, mix a bag of dry yeast, 3 eggs, 125 ml of milk, 5 grams of salt, 3 times more sugar and beat. Add 4-4.5 cups flour and knead the dough like on pies. Divide it in half, roll one part into a 30 x 40 cm layer and lay on a baking sheet. Grease it in advance. Then put and level the curd filling, cover with a second layer of the same. Cover with a clean towel and leave the dough to stand for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Preheat the oven in advance. Bake for 20-25 minutes at a temperature of 180-190 degrees. For the filling, simply mix 2 packs of cottage cheese, 1/2 cup sugar, 2-3 eggs, vanilla and raisins. You can add other dried fruits, berries and fruit slices.
Banica with cottage cheese
If you really need a really quick cottage cheese pie, the recipe for a Bulgarian banitsa is the most suitable. And you can make both sweet and savory filling. And you don’t even need to knead the dough; instead, it uses thin pita bread. It remains only to make the curd filling and filling.
Stir the cottage cheese with 2 eggs and beat. Then put on pita sheets and twist them into tight braids. Having given the appearance of a snail, put it in a mold (grease it a little with oil). From 1 cup sour cream and 3 eggs, prepare the filling and add it to the cake. Bake a banana with cottage cheese for 30-40 minutes at 180 degrees. The sides and up should be a little browned. For unsweetened pie, chopped greens can be added to the filling, and to make the filling sweet - some sugar and dried fruits. You can choose according to your taste and discretion. The result is two, not one pie of cottage cheese. The recipe, simple and quick to prepare, will be the same in essence.
Dessert cake without baking
But what to do if you need to cook a delicious cake, but there is no oven or do not want to turn it on on a hot day? You can make a simple pie with cottage cheese without baking. Moreover, to make it very simple. For it, you need to take 300 g of
cookies "Jubilee" or "For tea", 250 g of cottage cheese without grains, 100 g of sugar, a glass of sour cream and any dried fruit.
You will also need a rectangular shape, it needs to be lined with cling film so that the cake can be easier to remove later. Mix everything except cookies. It will be a curd filling. You can add any dried fruits to it (large cut), only they need to be washed and dried beforehand. Thinly sliced bananas and fruit from compote will do. Put cookies on the bottom of the form, if necessary, you can break the extreme in half. Put a part of the curd filling on top, then again a layer of cookies. The last layer will be cream. Sprinkle with crumbs all the same cookies.
Leave for a couple of hours, so that the “pie” is well soaked, and the “dough” has softened. Perhaps this is the simplest and most delicious pie with cottage cheese. Grated chocolate or coconut will turn it into a real cake. This can not only be enjoyed at home, but guests are not ashamed to serve.
Conclusion
There is probably no person who would be indifferent to cottage cheese baking. Its aroma alone is capable of stimulating appetite instantly. And therefore, for family gatherings, and for celebration, a cottage cheese pie is always suitable. A recipe for simple and quick baking will surely help out if the hostess is busy or there is no way to cook. So, it is advisable to have at least a couple of such recipes in your notebook.