Wonderful cottage cheese pie - oven recipe

Kitchen appliances and utensils: deep bowl, rolling pin, spoon, baking dish, cling film, foil, blender.

Ingredients

Butter	180 g
Flour	400 g
Sugar	380 g
Eggs	6 pcs
Cocoa powder	50 g
Baking powder	8 g
Cottage cheese	600 g
Sour cream	300 g
Salt	1 pinch
Starch	50 g
Vanilla sugar	8 g

Step cooking

Cooking dough

1. An hour before cooking, we take out the butter from the refrigerator so that it becomes room temperature. We send a pack of oil or 180 g to the mixer bowl. There we add 180 g of sugar and 2 eggs. Beat the mixture for 3-5 minutes to get a homogeneous mass.
   
2. Then add 50 g of cocoa powder and 8 g (1 sachet) of baking powder. This cake can be prepared without baking powder. Therefore, if you did not find it at home or you do not want to add it, then just skip this ingredient. Beat the mass for another 3 minutes until smooth. After adding the cocoa, it is best to mix the mixture with a spoon to wet it. Otherwise, after turning on the cocoa mixer, it will simply scatter along the walls of the bowl.
   
3. Then gradually add 400 g of flour. Add it to a tablespoon without turning off the mixer. So the flour does not have time to fly apart and the dough will fit better. The amount of flour for everyone will go different, + -50 g, so be sure to add in portions. With quick kneading, the dough is soft, pliable, does not stick to your hands. If you stretch the kneading process, it increases the likelihood of creating a dense, rigid mass.
   
4. From the dough we make a cake, about 20 cm in diameter, wrap it with cling film, send it to the refrigerator for half an hour, let it cool.
   

Cooking a form

1. While the dough is cooling, we can prepare a baking dish. We take a round shape about 30 cm in diameter, cover it with foil so that after baking we can easily get the cake. Lubricate the foil with butter.
   
2. We take out the chilled dough from the refrigerator, put on a work surface, slightly sprinkled with flour. Using a rolling pin, we roll out a layer, the diameter of which will be 7 cm larger than the diameter of the form, so that we can make the sides.
   
3. For convenience, we roll the rolled dough onto a rolling pin and transfer it to the mold. We disband the dough layer on the bottom of the form, make high sides, as in the form, remove excess dough. Even if the dough was broken during the transfer, it's okay, just blind from the pieces you received the desired shape.
   
4. We send the form to the refrigerator for 1-1.5 hours. We make the pieces of the remaining dough of the desired shape, cover the cutting board with cling film, put the slices, cover with cling film and send to the refrigerator. If you don’t have time to wait for long cooling of the dough, send it to the freezer for 30 minutes.
   

Cooking stuffing

1. Pour 600 g of cottage cheese into a deep bowl. It is better to take dry cottage cheese of any fat content. I used 9%. Add to the cottage cheese 300 g of sour cream of any fat content, 200 g of sugar or to taste, 8 g (bag) of vanilla sugar, a pinch of salt and 4 eggs. Beat the ingredients to a homogeneous, liquid mass with a submersible blender or in any other way convenient for you.
   
2. Add 50 g of potato starch, mix. You can replace it with the same amount of flour or semolina.
   

We form and bake a pie

1. We take the form out of the refrigerator, pour the curd filling into it. We take out pieces of dough from the refrigerator, we break most of them into several parts, and immerse them in the filling.
   
2. The remaining pieces are laid out on top in a chaotic manner.It is thanks to this decoration that this cake is called “Giraffe” or “Burenka”.
   
3. We send to the oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 1 hour. After cooking, let cool, take out of the form, cut into portions and serve with your favorite drink.
   

Video recipe

We recommend watching the video, which shows and tells the whole process of making a pie with cottage cheese in the oven.

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