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Cottage Cheese Babka with Raisins

Type: Desserts
Servings: 4
Ready in: 1 hour
Calories: Middle
It is a tender and delicious dessert based on cottage cheese. It won’t take long to cook it, and the cottage cheese’s fans will definitely enjoy it.

Ingredients

Tvorog (Cottage cheese) 500 g
Sugar 250 g
Cinnamon to taste
Raisins 100 g
Cookies 50 g
Egg 3 pieces
Dairy butter 20 g
Smetana (sour cream) 100 g
Salt 1 pinchs

 

Stages of cooking

1
Soak the raisins in water (preheated to 65-70C) for 10-15 mins to get rid of wax layer and preservatives in raisins. Properly rinse it. Drain the raisins in the paper napkin.
2
Separate yolks from whites. Whip the whites with sugar until foamy.
3
Grind the yolks with cottage cheese and sour cream until they are fully combined.
4
Add the cinnamon and raisins, stir well. Heat oven to 180C. Crumble up the cookies in the blender.
5
Brush the baking pan with butter. Sprinkle the bottom with crumbled cookies. Put the cottage cheese batter into the baking pan, and bake it in the oven for 40 mins.
6
The Cottage Cheese Babka should be baked until it has a golden crisp.
7
Serve cooled with sour cream or jam. Also, the dish can be dressed with fresh or canned fruits and mint leaves.

 

 

 

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