Cottage cheese and cherry pie

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a pie with cottage cheese and cherries? Start cooking with butter dough. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance, it should become soft. Choose it of the best quality, corresponding to GOST.

2. Step 2:

   

   Beat soft butter with sugar until fluffy. Do not beat for a long time, the oil may begin to delaminate. Three minutes will be enough.

3. Step 3:

   

   Without ceasing to beat, add one egg at a time, mixing well after each.

4. Step 4:

   

   Sift flour with baking powder and salt and add parts to the dough, kneading it after each serving.

5. Step 5:

   

   You should get a soft sticky dough. The butter dough is ready.

6. Step 6:

   

   Prepare the cottage cheese dough next. Take the cottage cheese fatter, from 5% fat content and above, preferably not dry, so that there are no lumps. If you have only dry, then add a little sour cream to it.

7. Step 7:

   

   Pre-rub the cottage cheese through a sieve or whisk with an immersion blender into a homogeneous mass. Combine cottage cheese with sugar, vanilla sugar and eggs.

9. Step 8:

   

   Mix everything thoroughly until smooth. You can use a mixer, you can use an ordinary whisk. The curd dough is ready.

10. Step 9:

    

    Prepare the filling. If the cherry is fresh, remove the seeds from it and drain the juice. If frozen, then use it without defrosting. I have frozen berries. Instead of corn, you can take potato starch.

11. Step 10:

    

    Combine the cherries with cornstarch and mix. The filling is ready.

12. Step 11:

    

    It remains to collect the pie. In a baking dish (I have a diameter of 20 cm), put the butter dough and smooth it out.

13. Step 12:

    

    Pour the curd on top of the butter dough.

14. Step 13:

    

    Put the cherry in starch on it. Distribute it evenly. Bake the pie in a preheated 180 °C oven for about 45 minutes.

15. Step 14:

    

    Cool the finished cake, remove from the mold, sprinkle with powdered sugar and cut into pieces. When the pie is still hot, the cottage cheese in the middle may tremble slightly. It is ok. When the cake cools down, the cottage cheese will become more dense.