Perhaps not everyone knows, but this year Easter will be a week earlier than in the past. Namely, April 8th. Thus, there is very little time left to find a good holiday cake recipe. For this reason, we further invite our readers to study the most successful cooking cake options that will help even inexperienced housewives to create a beautiful and tasty Easter at home.
Easiest option
In the modern world there is a unique opportunity - not to suffer, doing complex work, but just go to the store and choose what is necessary, only by paying a certain amount. However, as you know, all the best and quality must certainly be done with your own hands. But many recipes are quite difficult to understand and difficult to execute. Therefore, inexperienced hostesses try not to experiment again - suddenly it doesn’t work, but to get the finished product. Let the store.
For this reason, in the current paragraph, we will consider the curd Easter recipe and step by step describe its technology. But first, let's figure out what ingredients we need:
- half a kilogram of cottage cheese (it is this product, not the curd mass);
- five tablespoons of sour cream and butter;
- a pinch of salt;
- four tablespoons of sugar;
- some sunflower oil to lubricate the mold.
Executing this recipe is extremely simple. In addition, there are no strict rules and recommendations for cooking. Therefore, the hostesses will certainly like it, for the first time they dared to make an Easter cake with their own hands.
How to cook:
- To get started, take a bowl of a suitable size and lay out all the ingredients indicated in the curd Easter recipe proposed above.
- Then we “arm” ourselves with a blender and thoroughly beat everything into a common mass. It should be a homogeneous consistency.
- When the desired result is achieved, put the mixture in the mold for making Easter cake, which must first be greased with sunflower oil.
- We put for a day in a place where nobody will disturb the Easter cake.
- After the specified time, carefully pull it out of the form and decorate it at our discretion.
Easter cake with raisins
The following curd Easter recipe is also very easy to use. And its components are almost the same.
What is needed:
- one kilogram of cottage cheese;
- 250 grams of sour cream;
- one and a half glasses of cream of 1.5% fat;
- one glass of sugar;
- two chicken eggs;
- half a teaspoon of vanilla sugar;
- fifty grams of raisins;
- some sunflower oil to lubricate the mold.
How to cook:
- Thoroughly beat the cottage cheese with a blender or grind with a spoon.
- Then add the remaining ingredients (except for raisins) into it, continuing to whisk intensively.
- When the mass is homogeneous, it is necessary to add raisins. And mix everything with a spoon.
- Then take the form. Best four or hex. Some housewives argue that a special form can easily be replaced with an ordinary grater, having previously installed it with a plastic bag.
- Next, lubricate the container with sunflower oil.
- And put the prepared mixture in it.
- Then put the curd Easter cooked according to the described recipe for a day in the refrigerator.
- But you can’t forget about Easter cake! It should periodically drop in and drain the allocated serum.
- When the specified time comes out, you can get our delicious and original Easter cake with raisins.
Motley easter
This Easter cake is sure to appeal to little children. After all, it turns out very tasty. After all, it includes such components as:
- half a kilogram of cottage cheese;
- 150 grams of sour cream;
- twenty grams of gelatin;
- two tablespoons of butter;
- four tablespoons of cream 20% fat;
- a pinch of salt;
- half a glass of sugar;
- various candied fruits;
- one ripe banana.
Easter cheese recipe without eggs is considered more dietary and easier. In addition, many housewives note that, due to the absence of this component, holiday cake does not have a specific smell, which is given by eggs.
How to cook:
- First of all, we need to steam the gelatin. To do this, pour the contents of the bag into a small bowl, pour it with warm water, mix and leave to swell.
- Without wasting time, we proceed to cottage cheese. Grind it through a sieve or beat with a blender.
- Then add sour cream, cream, salt and sugar.
- Mix everything thoroughly into a homogeneous mass.
- Then in a water bath melt the butter.
- And pour to the rest of the ingredients.
- The gelatin mixture is slightly heated. The most important thing is not to allow it to boil.
- And add to the curd mass.
- Stir vigorously with a spoon.
- Finally, the turn of candied fruit comes. We send them after gelatin.
- You can cut the banana into circles, or you can beat in a blender. Then add to the total mass and mix.
So, the recipe for making Easter cheese is quite simple. Therefore, the most difficult thing is behind. Now it remains only to lay out the mass in the prepared form. And send in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, so that the gelatin completely freezes. After that, you can get a delicious Easter cake and, having decorated it at your discretion, serve it on the table.
Custard holiday cake
A huge number of cookbooks and culinary resources offer our attention an unprecedented variety of options and methods for preparing Easter cakes. Moreover, there are both original and tasty, and quite ordinary and unsuccessful. Therefore, every housewife mainly uses a well-known and tested recipe. But what to do for those who have never cooked Easter cake before? Explore the next option!
So, in order to cook a custard curd Easter according to this recipe, ingredients such as:
- one kilogram of cottage cheese;
- two hundred grams of sour cream;
- 150 grams of butter;
- three chicken eggs;
- two hundred grams of sugar;
- one hundred grams of raisins;
- one lemon.
How to cook:
- We take a pan with a thick bottom and rub the cottage cheese into it through a sieve.
- Then add the rest of the components. In addition to raisins and lemon.
- Mix everything thoroughly.
- Our next step is rather unusual. After all, we need to heat the mixture by putting it on the stove. The most important thing is to prevent boiling! But just wait for the appearance of bubbles on the surface.
- Immediately remove and lower into a container of cold water or put on ice.
- Pour raisins into the warm mixture.
- Next, grate the lemon zest on a fine grater and send it afterwards.
- Mix again.
- A special form for Easter, a six or four-sided grater or an unused flower pot is covered with gauze soaked in clean water.
- We spread in it a mass prepared according to the recipe for cottage cheese Easter with raisins described above.
- Then set the mold in a deep bowl. Excess fluid will come into it - serum.
- And on top we put a jar or a pot of water so that the mass is under oppression.
- Then we send our future Easter cake for a day in the refrigerator.
- After the specified time, we take out, turn over, decorate or serve directly.
Golden Easter
For all the recipes for the curd Easter described above, without baking it is very easy and interesting to cook on your own at home. Moreover, children can be involved in the cooking process. They, too, will be pleased to carry out the necessary manipulations. In addition, any joint activity brings together. And this is the second important reason for which one of the options for the holiday cake proposed in this article should be performed.
For example, if you want to cook not white, but “golden” Easter, you should study the following recipe. But first prepare the important ingredients:
- one kilogram of cottage cheese;
- a pound of sour cream;
- two hundred grams of butter and sugar;
- five chicken eggs;
- one hundred grams of candied fruit.
According to the recipe described below, it is very easy to prepare curd cake for Easter. The main thing is to follow each step correctly:
- For starters, boil the eggs for ten minutes.
- Then rinse with cold water and peel.
- Then carefully divide them into halves and remove the yolks. And put the proteins aside. We will not need them for the execution of the recipe.
- In the butter melted in a water bath, add the yolks, sugar and rub everything thoroughly until a homogeneous consistency.
- We break the cottage cheese with a blender and spread it to the rest of the ingredients.
- Following him we send sour cream and candied fruit.
- Mix everything thoroughly with a spoon.
- Next, put the curd mixture in the prepared form and send it to the refrigerator. However, a festive dish prepared according to this recipe for cottage cheese Easter at home should be infused for two to three days.
- After the necessary time has passed, we take it out and decorate it of our own free will.
"Royal" cake
The next Easter, the recipe of which we would also like to share with the reader, was not in vain received such a name. After all, this dish is truly royal. And, after reading the list of ingredients, this is very easy to verify.
What is needed:
- one kilogram of cottage cheese;
- half a kilogram of sour cream and sugar;
- two hundred grams of butter;
- five chicken eggs;
- 150 grams of raisins and walnuts;
- half a teaspoon of cinnamon;
- one bag of vanilla sugar.
To prepare the “Royal” curd Easter according to this recipe, you only need:
- Mix cottage cheese, sour cream, eggs and butter melted in a water bath.
- Pour the mixture into a pan with a thick bottom, put on fire and, continuously stirring, bring to a boil.
- Remove from heat and dip in cold water.
- Add sugar and stir vigorously until completely dissolved.
- Lightly scald raisins with boiling water and drain with a towel.
- Grind walnuts in a coffee grinder or finely chop with a knife.
- Add both components to the curd mass.
- And mix everything thoroughly.
- Cover the usual colander with gauze soaked in water.
- Then put the mixture for Easter cake in it.
- Then set under bending over the pan so that serum flows into it.
- And send for twenty-four hours in the refrigerator.
Baked Easter Cake
Another very interesting curd Easter recipe for the oven. For its execution, the following components will be required:
- two hundred grams of cottage cheese;
- one glass of milk and sugar;
- fifty grams of butter;
- a pound of wheat flour;
- one sachet of high-speed yeast;
- two chicken eggs;
- half a teaspoon of salt;
- candied fruit - determine the amount to taste.
How to cook:
- First, heat the milk and pour the yeast into it.
- In a separate container we combine cottage cheese, sour cream, sugar and melted butter.
- Then add milk and yeast to them.
- Beat the mixture thoroughly with a blender.
- Then pour the washed raisins and gradually introduce the flour.
- Knead the dough, cover with a towel and set for two hours in a warm place.
- And finally, we begin to sculpt the Easter cake.
Thus, as you can understand, it is not difficult to cook a simple curd Easter according to this recipe; now it remains only to bake our cakes in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees for twenty minutes.
Classic easter
If you want to cook an original Russian dish, the recipe of which came to us from ancient times, you need to pay attention to the option described in the current paragraph.
What is needed:
- one kilogram of cottage cheese;
- two hundred grams of sour cream;
- 150 grams of sugar;
- three egg yolks;
- a pinch of salt;
- three hundred grams of raisins.
According to the classic recipe for cottage cheese Easter, when cooking, it is necessary to observe the technology:
- First we should beat egg yolks intensively.
- Then add sugar and salt to them and mix thoroughly until completely dissolved.
- In another bowl, beat the cottage cheese.
- Then pour the egg mixture and put the sour cream.
- Stir again.
- Scald raisins with boiling water and blot with a towel.
- Then pour into the curd mass and mix with a spoon, trying to distribute evenly.
- Then we take the form.
- And spread the curd mixture.
- We put away the knock in the refrigerator.
- After the specified time, we get the Easter cake and decorate at our discretion.
Sweet tooth option
Those who find the classic Easter cottage cheese recipe, like the others described above, seem too ordinary, should definitely study the following technology and the ingredients for it.
What is needed:
- one and a half kilograms of cottage cheese;
- two hundred and fifty grams of sour cream (preferably 20% fat);
- three hundred grams of butter;
- one can of condensed milk;
- half a teaspoon of vanilla sugar;
- one hundred grams of walnuts;
- four hundred grams of raisins, prunes and dried apricots - determine the proportion yourself.
When all the important components are ready, you can begin to execute the original recipe:
- First of all, you need to carefully rub the cottage cheese through a sieve. This is best done a couple of times. Then the finished product will be very magnificent and airy.
- Then melt the butter in a water bath.
- Add vanilla sugar.
- And pour it into a bowl with cottage cheese.
- Next, spread the sour cream.
- Then intensively beat the mass with a blender.
- Next, open a jar of condensed milk and spread the contents to the rest of the ingredients.
- Mix again.
- At the very end we add raisins, finely chopped dried apricots and prunes.
- Mix everything with a spoon.
- We spread the mixture into the prepared form.
- We put oppression on top and send the resulting pyramid into the refrigerator for insisting. At least a day, preferably two.
It is recommended to pour the finished product with glaze and sprinkle with colored powder. The first component can be made independently, and the second - to buy in the store.
How to cook icing?
Very many housewives who want to create a beautiful and tasty Easter cake with their own hands are interested in this question. And indeed it is not always possible to really buy such a product in a store, but to make it at home is quite easy.
It is only necessary to prepare the ingredients indicated below.
What is needed:
- two chicken eggs;
- two hundred grams of powdered sugar;
- one tablespoon of lemon juice.
How to cook:
- Separate the whites from the yolks. We will not need the latter.
- Beat the first component thoroughly into lush foam.
- Add the powder and lemon juice.
- Glaze is ready!