Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make a cake with cottage cheese? Prepare the ingredients for the cake base. Cookies can take any shortbread, according to your taste. Almost any, the cheapest and simplest, will do here. Take high-quality, fragrant butter. Take it out of the refrigerator in advance so that it is close to room temperature.
Step 2:
In a deep bowl, crumble the cookies, add the soft butter and mix until smooth.
Step 3:
Pour the resulting sand crumbs into a split form lined with parchment (⍉ 20-22 cm), align and tamp. Put the form in the refrigerator.
Step 4:
Prepare the products for the filling. Cream is desirable with a fat content of 33-35. Take the curd cheese soft, without additives. Wash the eggs, dry them and separate the whites from the yolks. Wash lime in hot water, dry with napkins.
Step 5:
Gelatin pour 50 ml of cold boiled water and leave to swell. Choose exactly such gelatin, which is filled with cold water. If you have another one, prepare it according to the instructions on the package.
Step 6:
Grate the lime zest on a medium grater. Squeeze out the juice. Combine the curd cheese with powdered sugar, pour the juice into it and pour in the lime zest.
Step 7:
Beat the cheese mass with a mixer on low speed until smooth.
Step 8:
In a saucepan of 50 ml of water and sugar, cook the syrup (the syrup is ready at 108 ° C).
Step 9:
While the syrup is cooking, whisk the egg yolks into a light mass. Continuing to beat, pour a thin stream of hot sugar syrup into the yolks. Continue whipping until the mass turns white.
Step 10:
Heat gelatin over low heat until dissolved.
Step 11:
Separately whisk the cream with a mixer or blender into a strong, stable foam.
Step 12:
With constant stirring, pour the melted gelatin into the cheese mass.
Step 13:
Add the yolk mixture to the cream and mix. You can do it with a mixer.
Step 14:
Gently mix the whipped cream into the cream. Do this with a silicone or any other spatula.
Step 15:
You should get a lush elastic mass, such as in the photo.
Step 16:
Put the filling on the base of the cookie cake. Flatten and refrigerate for 3-5 hours.
Step 17:
Take the cake out of the refrigerator. Remove the ring from it.
Step 18:
Decorate the cake as desired. I melted white chocolate, adding grated zest of tangerine and lime to it. I quickly poured chocolate on the cake and decorated it with lime, kumquat and mint. That's how beautiful I got it.
All components for the cream need to be done quickly. As soon as all the parts of the cream are ready, quickly mix them together and put them on the base. Due to gelatin and sugar syrup, the cream begins to set and gelate quickly. To keep the surface of the cake smooth, you need to do everything quickly enough.
To make a dish using gelatin work, be sure to pre-soak the gelatin in cold boiled water. The colder the water, the better. Leaf gelatin can simply be put in a bowl of water. Before soaking the powdered gelatin, first rinse the dishes with cold water so that the crystals do not stick to the bottom. It is important to pour powdered gelatin with water, and not pour it into the water. Otherwise, lumps cannot be avoided. Then allow time for the gelatin to swell (the exact time is indicated on the package).
Swollen gelatin is heated to 70-80 degrees. It should never be brought to a boil!. At a temperature of 100 ° C, the mass becomes fibrous and viscous, collagen protein is destroyed and gelatin loses its jelly-forming properties.
Since I got my degree as a pastry chef, I stopped buying cakes in the store. I cook them myself for all holidays. Among my favorites are gelatin cakes without baking. They turn out to be very delicate and airy. This is natural, because my favorite sweets since childhood and still are "Bird's milk". This cake tastes something close to these candies. Therefore, I consider it one of the best in my collection at the moment.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Buttermilk - 36 kcal/100g
- Cream of 20 % fat content - 300 kcal/100g
- Cream of 10% fat content - 120 kcal/100g
- Cream - 300 kcal/100g
- Lime - 16 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Gelatin - 355 kcal/100g
- Coffee cookies - 589 kcal/100g
- Waffle cookies - 540 kcal/100g
- Kurabye cookies - 489 kcal/100g
- Butter cookies - 510 kcal/100g
- Chocolate cookies - 406 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Egg yolks - 352 kcal/100g
- Powdered sugar - 374 kcal/100g
- Cottage cheese - 223 kcal/100g
