Pies with cottage cheese are not just a way to diversify casseroles and muffins, and not an option for a cheesecake recipe that is convenient for us. And it’s not even a way to safely “hide” cottage cheese in order to feed our kids a healthy product. This is our culture! And that’s why we love cottage cheese especially tenderly, respectfully giving it a place of honor in our menu. And today I will prove it! I will introduce you to a new collection of the most successful recipes for cottage cheese pies.
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Let's get acquainted! This is a yeast pie with curd filling. The dessert is topped with streusel. Ingredients for the dough:
- Flour – 550 g;
- Yeast (fresh) – 50 g;
- Butter – 100 g;
- Sugar – 60 g;
- Vegetable oil – 100 g;
- Water – 250 ml;
- Salt – 1 teaspoon.
For filling:
- Cottage cheese – 1 kg;
- Eggs – 3 pcs.;
- Sugar – 180 g + 10 g vanilla sugar
For the baby:
- Flour – 80 g;
- Butter – 70 g;
- Sugar – 50 g.
And 1 more egg for brushing the pie.
Cooking features
A couple of hours before you start working on the layered yeast cake with cottage cheese, you need to remove the butter from the refrigerator - it should become soft. Heat the milk slightly and dissolve the yeast. Sift the flour, add it to the milk in small portions, stir constantly. At the end, add 50 grams of oil. Add 100 grams of sugar, salt and vanillin.
Knead the dough and leave it in a cool place for half an hour.
Roll out the remaining butter between two sheets of parchment paper. The result should be a rectangular layer. Place onto dough to achieve uniform temperature.
Take out the workpiece and roll it into a thin layer. Place the butter in parchment paper on top, cover it with the free sides of the dough, and roll out. Repeat the procedure 2 times.
Leave the dough in a cool place for a quarter of an hour (without oil).
Grind the cottage cheese with the remaining sugar and egg. Pour boiling water over the raisins for 15 minutes, place on a paper towel to remove any remaining moisture, and stir into the curd filling.
Visually divide the dough layer into 3 parts. Cut the left and right diagonally, 2-3 centimeters wide. Place a heaping amount of filling into the untouched center. Cover the curd mass with strips of dough one at a time, braiding.
Lightly seal the edges of the pie. You should get a voluminous braid with a sweet filling inside.
Place the layer-yeast pie with cottage cheese on a baking sheet lined with foil (bright side down), and brush the top with scrambled egg. Baking time is 30-40 minutes at temperatures up to 200 degrees.
How to make yeast pie with cottage cheese (step-by-step recipe with photos)
Dough. We dilute the yeast in warm water.
Sift the flour. Mix with sugar and salt.
Combine flour with yeast, vegetable oil and butter (pre-melt the butter).
Mix the dough. Cover with a napkin and put it in a warm place for 30 minutes. The dough should increase 2-2.5 times.
Cupcake without dough filling “a la sponge cake”
Cottage cheese can be used not only for filling - it goes well with the taste of biscuit dough, making it more tender and juicy.
Ingredients
- eggs – 4 pcs.;
- cottage cheese without fillers – 250-300 g;
- cocoa (optional) – teaspoon;
- flour - a heaped glass;
- sugar - up to the rim of a faceted glass;
- vanillin - a pinch;
- soda (it must be quenched with vinegar) – a pinch;
- butter or fresh margarine for baking – 100 g.
Recipe
The algorithm for preparing the dough is no different from a regular sponge cake: beat eggs with sugar and vanilla, add melted butter, and then cottage cheese. Mix everything. Add slaked soda and cocoa. Lastly, flour.
Usually there is no filling for this type of cake. As an option, you can use any fruit: place them on the greased bottom of the mold and fill with dough. Bake for about an hour, checking with a wooden knitting needle for doneness. Decorate the dessert with powdered sugar.
Baking according to such a simple recipe is convenient to prepare in a slow cooker. In this case, you should add baking powder to the dough, sift the flour, and rub the cottage cheese into crumbs through a colander.
Curd filling for pie
Mix cottage cheese with sugar and vanilla sugar.
Beat the eggs into the curd-sugar mixture and mix until smooth.
It is very important to use pasty, fine-grained cottage cheese. If you get a coarse one, pass it through a metal sieve.
Streusel. Pre-cool the butter in the freezer. We grate it. Mix with sugar and flour.
Grind into crumbs. I do this with my hands, rubbing between my palms.
Assembling a pie with cottage cheese
Knead the dough.
Divide into 3 equal parts. 2 of them are the bottom of the pie. Mix them together. Roll out and place in prepared pan.
I line the pan with baking paper to make the cake come out easier.
The edges of the cake should have a height equal to the sides (or quite a bit less).
Place our filling in an even layer on the crust.
Cover the top with another cake layer, having previously rolled it out from the remaining dough. We pinch the edges.
To grease the pie, beat one egg with a fork (you can mix it with 2 tablespoons of milk)
It is convenient to lubricate the top using a silicone brush.
Brush the pie with lightly beaten egg. Be sure to pierce the entire surface with a fork. This is necessary so that steam escapes while baking the pie and the dough does not tear.
Sprinkle with crumbs.
Bake for 40-50 minutes in an oven preheated to 180.
The pie is fragrant! Looks amazingly beautiful! Delicious both warm and cold!
Advice from Edana: what to bake a pie in?
If you like to experiment by testing out different recipes, you will need special molds. The easiest way to bake a muffin or puff pastry is on a baking sheet with high sides, but for poured, sponge or shortbread desserts this is not the best option.
For cottage cheese biscuit, it is worth purchasing a silicone container - if it has a shaped bottom, the dough will fill all the recesses and the cake will turn out patterned. At the end, just turn it over onto a large plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar and cinnamon.
The poured batter will be perfectly held in a metal container (round or square) with a non-stick Teflon coating. But for shortbread baking, molds with removable sides are ideal - they prevent the butter mixture from “spreading” in the first minutes after entering the oven, but later they are very easy to remove.
Royal
A very beautiful pie. It has a classic combination of cottage cheese and fruit and all this is “wrapped” in chocolate dough.
Ingredients for the dough:
- Flour – 270 g;
- Butter – 180 g;
- Sugar – 3 tbsp. spoons;
- Sour cream – 3 tbsp. spoons;
- Cocoa – 3 tbsp. spoons;
- Baking powder – 1.5 teaspoons.
For filling:
- Cottage cheese – 650 g;
- Condensed milk (boiled) – 300 g;
- Eggs – 2 pcs.;
- Potato starch - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- Prunes (you can take berries, cherries, dried apricots or to your taste) – 250-300 g;
- Sugar – 2 tbsp. spoons (optional).
Preparation:
- Mix cocoa with sugar. Add oil and put on fire.
- When the sugar and butter have completely melted, remove from heat and cool.
- Add sour cream to the chocolate mixture and stir until smooth.
- Sift the flour and mix with baking powder.
- Pour the chocolate mixture into the flour.
- Mix the dough. Wrap it in film and put it in the refrigerator.
- Combine cottage cheese, starch, eggs and condensed milk. Stir until smooth. Break up the lumps with a fork or blender. Let's taste the filling. If you want it a little sweeter, add sugar.
- Leave 1/3 of the dough in the refrigerator while we form the base of the cake.
- Place 2/3 of the dough into the mold. Press down and distribute throughout the mold. Make the bottom and sides of the pie.
- Place prunes (softened) on the base.
- Pour half of the filling on top.
- Place the prunes again.
- Fill with the remaining filling and level the layer.
- Grate the remaining dough and sprinkle the pie with this crumb.
- Place in the oven for 45-50 minutes. We bake at a temperature of 180.
Let the finished pie cool and decorate.
Layered pie made from lavash or ready-made dough
This recipe is unique, since already baked thin Armenian pita bread and ready-made frozen puff pastry are equally suitable for it. The filling will be the same - cottage cheese with herbs. In both cases, filling is also required, thanks to which the pie will turn out especially juicy and tender.
For 1 large pie we will need:
- 1 package of puff pastry (500 g) or 5 small round pita breads
- a bunch of any greenery
- 1 clove of garlic
- salt and spices - to taste
- 300 g cottage cheese
- 2 eggs
- 100 g milk
- 2 tbsp. sour cream
- 1 tbsp. butter
Cooking process step by step:
- Add a little salt to the cottage cheese, chopped herbs and garlic, add spices and mash with a fork.
- Grease the pie pan with oil.
- If we cook from lavash, then we simply layer the lavash with the curd mixture, making sure that the first and last layers are made of lavash.
- If you plan to make a puff pastry pie with cottage cheese and herbs, then roll out the dough that has melted on the refrigerator shelf and cut it to fit the mold. Next, as with pita bread, we form the pie in layers.
- We prepare the filling from sour cream, eggs and milk (don’t forget to add salt and spices) - just mix everything until smooth. Pour evenly over our still unbaked pie.
- Place the pan in the oven for 30-40 minutes. Temperature - 200 degrees.
- That's it, the pie is ready!
Poppy tenderness
The pie is very simple. Prepares quickly. The ingredients are a dream for those who prefer healthy eating. The name speaks volumes about the taste!
Ingredients for the dough:
- Oatmeal – 2 tbsp. (200ml each);
- Flour – 1 tbsp;
- Butter – 180 g;
- Sugar – 80 g; For filling:
- Cottage cheese – 350 g;
- Sugar – 100 g;
- Semolina – 120 g;
- Milk – 600 ml;
- Egg – 1 pc.;
- Poppy – 150 g.
Fans of baking with poppy seeds will like recipes such as Yeast roll with poppy seeds, Lemon muffins with poppy seeds.
Preparation:
- Grind the flakes in a blender.
- Mix cereal, sugar and flour.
- Add soft butter and grind the dough into crumbs.
- Grease the mold. Pour 2/3 of the crumbs into the bottom. Press the dough to form the crust. Place the form in the refrigerator.
- Using a blender, beat the egg and cottage cheese.
- Put the milk on the fire. Add sugar (100g), poppy seeds and semolina. Cook the porridge until it boils, stirring constantly.
- Turn off the heat and let the porridge brew for 10 minutes (stir every 2-3 minutes).
- When the porridge has cooled a little, mix it with cottage cheese.
- Fill the form with filling.
- Sprinkle the remaining crumbs on top.
- Place in the oven to bake at 175 for 1 hour.
- When the cake has cooled a little, take it out of the pan and decorate.
It seems to me that this wonderful dessert is made faster than I just talked about it. And the taste... you have to try it! It's impossible to describe!
If you like baking with cottage cheese, take note of cottage cheese pancakes with semolina, classic cottage cheese casserole and muffins with cottage cheese.
In a slow cooker
A recipe for those who have this great kitchen helper.
What will you need?
- A glass of flour;
- eggs 3 pieces;
- a glass of sugar;
- half a kilo of cottage cheese;
- 2 more eggs for filling.
Preparation:
- Using a mixer, beat the eggs and sugar until they are combined.
- Add flour and stir.
- In a separate bowl, combine eggs, cottage cheese, sugar, vanilla.
- Divide the dough into two parts. Place the first one on the bottom of the multicooker bowl.
- Pour the filling and cover with the second part of the dough.
- Set the “Baking” mode for an hour. Then add another 20 minutes.
- Let the pie cool in the slow cooker, and then take it out and eat it with tea.
Biscuit with homemade cottage cheese
There is no filling in this pie. And the dough is a regular sponge cake. But cottage cheese makes this pie special!
Ingredients:
- Flour – 1 tbsp;
- Sugar – 1 tbsp;
- Eggs – 3 pcs.;
- Cottage cheese – 80-100 g;
- Apple pieces and nuts.
Preparation:
- Beat the eggs.
- Add sugar in small portions, continuing to beat.
- HOMEMADE cottage cheese (I wrote about it, how to make it from milk and kefir) beat with a blender. Homemade cottage cheese is especially tender. And after whipping it, we get a homogeneous fluffy mass.
- Add cottage cheese in small portions to the egg-sugar mixture. Mix carefully.
- Add flour with baking powder. Stir until smooth.
- Preheat the oven to 180 C. Prepare the mold and pour the dough into it. Sprinkle nuts on top and arrange apple slices. Set to bake for 30-35 minutes. The pie turns out fluffy, with a slight pleasant taste of baked cottage cheese.
How to make delicious homemade cottage cheese? The site has a wonderful recipe for cottage cheese made from milk.
Little secrets of cottage cheese pies
These are the observations that I personally really like:
- Always, even if it’s not in the recipe, I add vanilla extract to the cottage cheese. And very often – raisins. Then the taste and aroma of cottage cheese immediately takes me back to childhood.
- If you like crumb pies, then experiment, try mixing butter, sugar and flour with cottage cheese. The crumbs will taste unusual. Under the top crispy layer it will be slightly moist, just a little viscous and very tender.
- From my own experience, I know that all baked goods with cottage cheese need to sit a little. Then it will be much tastier.
- Cottage cheese is a universal filling. It goes well with meat, fruits, vegetables, creams, herbs and seasonings. Therefore, pies with cottage cheese can be both a dessert and a snack.
- You can serve warm cottage cheese pies with ice cream, and cooled ones with cream.
Experiment and discover new possibilities of cottage cheese!
