Chocolate Easter without eggs

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Ingredients.

2. Step 2:

   

   Chocolate is brought to the state of a pleasantly smelling black liquid, using hot water. To do this, we lower a small container of chocolate into a large saucepan with boiling water. The method is called a "water bath", and it implies that boiling water should not directly touch what heats through a small container.

3. Step 3:

   

   Mix cream with sugar.

4. Step 4:

   

   Melted chocolate we mix with sugar and cream. You can beat their mixture with a mixer or with a simple hand whisk.

5. Step 5:

   

   Soften the butter in order to beat it together with vanilla and grated cottage cheese. Whisk separately from the chocolate mixture. Take note that cottage cheese must be tender, not dry. With dry cottage cheese, the mass will become too crumbly to make a normal Easter.

6. Step 6:

   

   The whipped mixture of cottage cheese and butter is transferred to the cooled chocolate, gradually, spoonful by spoonful. Beat the final billet for Easter with the same whisk / mixer.

7. Step 7:

   

   Pour candied fruits with boiling water, leave for 10 minutes to remove excess sugar and dye.

9. Step 8:

   

   We mix nuts, chopped candied fruits into the curd mass, raisins can be used.

10. Step 9:

    

    The Pasochnaya mold is covered with clean white gauze (so that the cottage cheese does not touch the mold itself, otherwise it may leak out). At the bottom of the form we lay out the drawing.

11. Step 10:

    

    Then we spread half of the curd mass, here you can put candied fruits on the edge for decoration and lay out the rest of the curd mass.

12. Step 11:

    

    We close the top with gauze, put a bowl, and a load on it, for example, a jar of water or pickles. We put it in the cold and leave it for at least 12 hours.

13. Step 12:

    

    We carefully tip the finished cottage cheese chocolate Easter onto the dish and release it from the gauze. You can additionally decorate with candied fruits or chocolate chips.

14. Step 13:

    

    Bon appetit!