Curd cake “Amazing” is considered a classic Russian dessert for treating guests and home-made tea drinking. This simple and popular dish can be found not only in home cooking, but also in expensive restaurants. This recipe combines the ease of preparation and the extraordinary taste of the dessert itself. Thanks to the right ingredients, the pie is airy, with excellent taste and great aroma.
Dessert options
Amazing cottage cheese cupcake can be prepared at home and even without special skills in baking desserts. Resourceful housewives on the basis of the original recipe came up with a huge number of options for preparing a curd miracle and various types of filling.
There are many types of curd dough. It can be layered, sandy, liquid or yeast. Cottage cheese is not only added to the dough, as in the classic version of the preparation, but also used as a filling in combination with various fruits, berries, jam, chocolate.
Classic curd cake “Amazing”
The recipe for step-by-step preparation of a cupcake will make the process understandable and affordable for any housewife. The number of ingredients for baking a pie individually, it all depends on the required number of servings. Many housewives even cook “by eye”.
A basic recipe for 10 servings provides the following ingredients:
- flour (one glass);
- raisins (about 100 grams);
- 2 large chicken eggs;
- fat cottage cheese (250-300 grams);
- margarine or butter (125 grams);
- sugar (one glass);
- a pinch of soda or baking powder;
- half a lemon.
First you need to rinse the raisins and pour hot water. This will give softness to dried berries. Next, cut a half of the lemon and grind in a blender along with the skin. In the resulting lemon liquid, add soda to the tip of a teaspoon. Beat the eggs with a mixer until foamy, add sugar and beat again until completely dissolved. In a water bath you need to melt the butter and combine with cottage cheese. After thoroughly mix the cottage cheese with butter with a fork.
The next step is to combine all the ingredients. Pour the sifted flour into a bowl and knead the dough. You need to prepare a baking dish. It should be greased with oil or laid on the bottom of baking paper.
Having put the finished dough into the mold, it is necessary to smooth the surface of the cake with a confectionery spatula. Bake in the oven for about 40 minutes at 190 degrees. Put the pie in a preheated oven.
To make the dessert more uniform, you need to beat the cottage cheese with a blender to a tender mass. Raisins can be replaced with any dried fruit or nuts. A quick recipe for cooking allows you to get an unusually delicious dessert as a result.
Amazing Chocolate Cupcake
A stunningly delicious combination of cottage cheese and chocolate air biscuit will appeal to many sweet tooths. Not only an excellent taste, but also an unusual appearance, the “Amazing” curd cake prepared with the addition of chocolate has a curd. The recipe involves the use of the following ingredients for chocolate biscuit:
- 4 eggs;
- 420 g flour;
- 250 g of sugar;
- 250 g of cocoa powder;
- 1 cup boiling water;
- 1 cup milk
- a teaspoon with a baking powder slide;
- a tablespoon of sunflower oil.
Curd balls are prepared from:
- 360 g of granular cottage cheese;
- 320 g flour;
- 1 large egg or 2 small eggs;
- 150 g of sugar;
- vanilla to taste;
- 60 g coconut flakes.
For chocolate glaze you will need:
- 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder;
- 150 g of sugar;
- 150 g of water;
- 35 g butter.
Step-by-step cooking instructions
To prepare the curd balls, you need to mix the cottage cheese with eggs, sugar and vanilla. Sifted flour (sifting flour is necessary for the airiness of the dessert) should be mixed with coconut flakes and pour into cottage cheese. Stir all the ingredients together. Next, you need to roll the curd balls and put in the refrigerator for a while.
To make a chocolate-air biscuit, beat the eggs until a yellow foam forms, add sugar and mix until smooth. Next, cocoa must be combined with flour and baking powder, mix the dry ingredients well. Then add milk to the resulting mixture. After that, it is necessary to combine the resulting mass with beaten eggs and gradually add boiled water, continuously stirring the dough.
The baking dish must be covered with parchment and greased with oil. At the bottom of the form you need to put the curd balls and pour in the chocolate dough. The cake is placed in a preheated oven. Bake a dessert for about an hour at a temperature of 190 degrees.
To decorate the cake, you can make chocolate icing. In a water bath you need to melt the oil, add boiled water, cocoa powder and sugar. The mixture, stirring vigorously, bring to a boil. Pour the cake with icing, cooled to room temperature.
Curd Lemon Cupcake
Amazing taste and a simple recipe - this is a curd-lemon dessert. To make such a pie you will need:
- one tablespoon of butter;
- 200 grams of sugar;
- 400 grams of cottage cheese of any fat content;
- 4 eggs;
- 1 lemon
- 450 grams of flour.
Step-by-step cooking instructions:
- In a large bowl, combine the butter and half a glass of sugar. Grind sugar with butter well. Add cottage cheese and mix until smooth.
- Cut one lemon and grind in a blender.
- Combine the lemon puree with the curd and mix.
- In another bowl, beat the eggs with a mixer and a half cup of sugar.
- Combine all ingredients.
- Add yeast to the dough and put in a warm place for 15 minutes.
- Pour the flour gently into the risen dough and mix.
- Well grease the baking dish with butter, shift the dough into the mold.
- Put in a preheated to 190 degrees spirit for 40-60 minutes.
- The cupcake is airy and tender, with a crispy crust on the outside.
Curd cake “Amazing” with apples
To cook apple-curd pie, you will need these products:
- two large or three small eggs;
- 2-4 apples (depending on size);
- about 200 grams of cottage cheese of any fat content;
- one glass of sugar;
- 650 grams of flour;
- one tablespoon of butter;
- 3 tablespoons of yogurt;
- a teaspoon of baking powder.
Cooking method:
- Rub the cottage cheese with a fork into the curd mass, mix it with yogurt.
- Combine the eggs with sugar and vanilla. Beat with a whisk or mixer.
- Pour flour and baking powder into the egg mixture, mix well again.
- Pour the resulting dough into a mold pre-oiled.
- Gently place apple slices on the dough.
- Bake in the oven for about 40-45 minutes at 170 -180 degrees.
- The cooled cake can be sprinkled with powdered sugar.
There are a lot of recipes for making a cupcake, which is loved by many housewives. For any of them, you can easily cook curd cake "Amazing." By the way, at “Eat At Home” - the culinary telecast of Yulia Vysotskaya - it was noted that dessert is eaten as quickly as it is cooked. So the name is fully consistent with the taste of the cake.