Grated cake with cottage cheese and cherries

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to bake a grated cake with cottage cheese and cherries? Prepare the products. Sour cream and eggs should be cold. Keep the oil in the freezer until the right moment.

2. Step 2:

   

   Start by making shortbread dough. Combine sour cream with egg. Just mix it with a fork and put it in the refrigerator for now so that it doesn't heat up. Shortbread dough should be prepared quickly, otherwise the product may turn out to be tough.

3. Step 3:

   

   Sift the measured amount of flour and baking powder. Use a deep bowl to knead the dough. Add all the sugar, salt and vanilla. Mix the dry ingredients well with the flour, for even distribution.

4. Step 4:

   

   In the same bowl, rub the frozen butter. Dip the oil in flour, so it is quickly and easily rubbed. Keep the oil briquette through the packaging foil. Sprinkle the grated butter with flour, and then mix with a fork so that it does not get heated by hand.

5. Step 5:

   

   Pour liquid, egg-sour cream into the dry mixture of flour and butter. Mix with a fork first. Then, for convenience, put the dough on the table and quickly knead with your hands. The dough does not stick, it is soft and obedient. Try not to add extra flour, so as not to clog the dough.

6. Step 6:

   

   Do not knead for a long time until smooth, the task is just to assemble the dough into a lump. Divide the finished dough into 2 unequal parts and wrap them in foil or bags. Most of it is the base, the bottom of the pie, put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. The smaller one will rub on top, put it in the freezer.

7. Step 7:

   

   Filling products. Take any chocolate you want, you can not add it at all. Frozen cherries are suitable, in season it is certainly better to cook with fresh.I had store-bought cottage cheese, not very dry, 9% grained. Wash the frozen cherries without defrosting with cool water, let the water drain. I used Kinder chocolate bars, just broke them into fragments.

9. Step 8:

   

   Prepare the curd filling. Taste the cottage cheese, the amount of sugar will depend on its acid. Then mash it qualitatively with a fork so that there are no lumps left. Add a pinch of salt to balance the taste. Next, put the sugar and egg, mix and try, adjust the taste if necessary. Do not add chocolate and cherries yet, put them into the filling last when you put them on the dough.

10. Step 9:

    

    Cover the bottom of the mold with high-quality parchment. The size of my mold on the bottom is 30 x 18 cm, for this amount of ingredients it is the most suitable. Remove a larger piece of dough from the refrigerator. It can be rolled out between two sheets of parchment. I prefer to gradually stretch, knead into a layer with my hands, right in the form. Form the bottom of the pie is not very thin, the thickness of 0.7-1 cm will be excellent.

11. Step 10:

    

    Now add chocolate and cherries to the cottage cheese, mix. Then spread the filling evenly on the dough.

12. Step 11:

    

    Rub the frozen dough on top of a coarse grater.

13. Step 12:

    

    Bake in a preheated oven at t 190°With about 40-50 minutes, until golden brown. The time may vary due to the individuality of the ovens and the humidity of the cottage cheese. Check the readiness with a toothpick, if it came out dry, then the pie is ready. Mine took almost 50 minutes to prepare.

14. Step 13:

    

    Like any shortbread pie, leave it to cool in the mold, only then cut it. The slice of the cooled pie will be beautiful, the curd filling will stabilize. If you are in a hurry and you have to cut it still hot, the filling will be more moist and juicy, it may flow into the cut, but it will not affect the taste at all. The pie turns out to be quite satisfying, cut into small pieces, like a cookie or cake.