Puff pastry cake with cottage cheese

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   From the specified number of ingredients, two plaited cakes with cottage cheese are obtained. Therefore, if desired, you can reduce the number of ingredients by half, or leave half of the dough for freezing. It is well stored in the freezer, and then you can defrost it and use it for any baking.

2. Step 2:

   

   In a glass of warm water (about 30 degrees), dissolve sugar and salt. Remove the butter from the refrigerator and let it soften at room temperature. The main secret of getting a good puff pastry is the use of high–quality butter.

3. Step 3:

   

   Pour the mixture into a bowl, drive an egg into it. Shake it up. Add a tablespoon of vinegar (9%). Stir the mixture.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pour the sifted flour into this mixture in parts. And knead the dough. Flour may take a little more or less, it depends on the quality of the product.

5. Step 5:

   

   The dough should be elastic and soft, not stick to your hands. We roll it into a ball.

6. Step 6:

   

   Divide the softened butter into four equal pieces.

7. Step 7:

   

   We also divide the dough into 4 equal pieces.

8. Step 8:

   

   We roll out each piece of dough on a rolled board into a thin rectangular layer about 3 mm thick.

9. Step 9:

   

   Spread it with butter, evenly distributing it over the dough with a spatula. For each piece of dough, a piece of butter.

11. Step 10:

    

    On a rolling pin greased with vegetable oil, we wind the dough and cut it lengthwise, take out the rolling pin.

12. Step 11:

    

    And roll the dough across again. We do this with all the pieces of dough. Wrap the finished puff pastry with cling film and put it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. Meanwhile, we will prepare the filling for the pie.

13. Step 12:

    

    Cottage cheese is better to take a natural rustic, a pie with such a filling turns out very tasty. We divide the egg into two parts, half will go into cottage cheese, and the second to lubricate the pie. That's enough. In a bowl with cottage cheese, add sugar and a pinch of salt, egg and a pinch of vanilla. Rub everything into a homogeneous mass.

14. Step 13:

    

    Prepare the streusel right away. In a small cup, mix the chopped butter, sugar and flour, grind everything into crumbs. While we are cooking the pie, we will put the streusel in the refrigerator so that the butter does not melt. We roll out the cooled dough into a thin rectangular layer.

15. Step 14:

    

    At both ends (from the long sides) we make incisions at an angle, but not reaching the center. We put the curd filling in the center.

16. Step 15:

    

    Wrap the ends of the dough by braiding a pigtail of dough with stuffing.

17. Step 16:

    

    Grease the pie with beaten egg on top.

18. Step 17:

    

    Sprinkle with streusel. The oven is heated to 200 degrees. The second secret of successful baking from puff pastry, products from it need to be baked at maximum temperature.

19. Step 18:

    

    Take out the ruddy cake with cottage cheese. We let it cool down a little and serve it to tea. Have a nice tea party!