How to cook easy, fast and at the same timea very tasty dessert? It's very simple: you need to make a curd-fruit cake - it will be a major chord for any tea party. Not only an experienced, but also a novice housewife can prepare such a dessert, and she will not need to work for several hours to create a culinary masterpiece. And the taste of the cake, due to the combination of fruits and cottage cheese, will be rich and original. And, what is also important, the dessert will have a minimum of dough that is harmful to the figure and a maximum of lightness. All that remains is to choose a suitable cake recipe that can please your sweet tooth, girlfriends or colleagues. Well, there will be no problem with this, because there are a lot of options: you can make a dessert with peaches, oranges, kiwi, add strawberries, raspberries and other berries to it. This article presents just the most diverse options: any cake recipe is unique and interesting in its own way. Just make each of the four curd desserts we offer, choose the one you like the most, and delight your family, friends, or colleagues with them more often. Such culinary experiments will not have time to get boring or tiresome, because they will be so delicious! By the way, it is not a fact that you will choose only one cake recipe - most likely, your cookbook will be replenished with several at once.
Fruit and curd cake without baking
This is a great dessert option for kids thatwill definitely please little sweet tooths with its bright taste. And for their mothers, this curd cake with fruits and cookies is more than convenient: it needs to be prepared without baking, so even a young and novice housewife can handle it. Plus, you can make it at any time of the year, because the recipe includes kiwi and orange, that is, fruits that are not a problem to buy even in December or February. Ingredients:
- shortbread cookies - 200-250 grams
- cottage cheese - 1 kilogram
- butter - 150 grams
- granulated sugar - 100-150 grams (slightly more than half a glass)
- orange, kiwi, lemon - 1 piece (last - for juice)
- gelatine - 20 grams
- candied fruit for cake filling and for decoration
Method of preparation:First, you need to turn 200-250 grams of cookies into small crumbs. To save time, you can simply put them in a bag and roll them over with a rolling pin several times. The resulting crumbs must be mixed with 150 grams of butter, pre-softened (let it stand at room temperature for half an hour). The cake is made without baking, but you will need a form for it. The bottom of this dish must be covered with ordinary oiled paper, after which the resulting homogeneous mass of crumbs and butter is evenly spread on it. In this way, you will form a cake, which must be left in the refrigerator for about an hour and a half. In the meantime, squeeze the juice out of the lemon, warm it up a little and dissolve 20 grams of gelatin in it. Half a glass of granulated sugar must be poured into the cottage cheese and mixed well. Then you need to add juice with gelatin and half of the candied fruits to the resulting curd mass. After that, mix everything thoroughly again. This curd mass should be spread evenly on the already cooled cookie crumb cake. The dessert is almost ready - it remains to decorate it. To do this, you need to cut the kiwi and oranges into circles (the latter, by the way, can also be made into simple slices) and put them on the top layer of the cake along with the remaining half of the candied fruit. It will be even more interesting if you make some kind of drawing with the help of fruit - this recipe is also good because it gives you some scope for imagination and creativity. After that, the cake should be put in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours. When this time has passed, it can be safely served - little sweet tooth will be delighted.
Cottage cheese and fruit cake with pastry
This dessert is attractive due to its combination of nutritional value.shortcrust pastry and the lightness of cottage cheese. And as a bonus - the brightness and richness of apricots, nectarine, peaches with a slight taste of red wine. Yes, the recipe includes alcohol, so this dessert is only for adults. But even those who are indifferent to sweets will appreciate it. And this cake looks beautiful and even impressive - you can proudly put it on the festive table. Ingredients: for the dough:
- 100 grams of good margarine (better with a fat content of over 72%)
- flour - 1 tablespoon
- a pinch of salt
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 bag of baking powder
for the curd layer:
- sour cream - 200 grams
- granulated sugar - 140 grams
- cottage cheese - 500 grams
- starch - 2 tablespoons
- vanilla sugar - 1 sachet
- 1 egg white
- 1 egg
for the fruit layer:
- 200 milliliters of red wine
- 1 sachet of gelatin
- granulated sugar - 100 grams
- half a cinnamon sticks
- 5 carnations
- apricots, nectarines - 3 pieces each
- peaches - 2 pieces
Method of preparation:Naturally, first of all, you need to make a shortcrust pastry crust. You only need to chop the margarine and mix it well with the other ingredients: flour, salt, yolk and baking powder. If the dough turns out too soft, you can put it in the freezer (for literally 5 minutes). Then you need to make a crust in the form, bake it in the oven and cool it. In fact, you need to make shortcrust pastry in the usual way - nothing new or complicated. You won't have to mess around with the curd layer for long either. The recipe for this cake is generally very easy - it is designed for a busy housewife. You only need to mix the cottage cheese with sour cream and granulated sugar, add starch and vanilla sugar, add 1 protein and 1 egg. After that, you need to beat it all well with a mixer, and the base for the next layer of the cake is ready. The resulting mass should be evenly spread on the already cooled shortcrust pastry crust and put back in the oven. This time you need to bake for 40 minutes until the top layer is browned; the temperature should be 170 degrees. The future cake needs to be cooled. Making the fruit layer is the most difficult, but also the most interesting and even creative activity. First, you need to take a packet of gelatin, pour 50 milliliters of wine over it and leave for 40 minutes so that it swells. The remaining 150 milliliters of alcohol should be put on low heat, add cinnamon with cloves and granulated sugar and boil for 5 minutes. Then strain the resulting syrup and, stirring, pour into the gelatin. It's time to move on to the fruit: you need to cut peaches, nectarines, apricots and put them on the cooled curd layer. And here comes the time for creativity: you can make some kind of pattern, playing with yellow, red, orange colors. You can cut the fruit into circles or strips. You can cover the top of the cake completely with them or lay out some figures. The recipe can be supplemented by including strawberries or some other berry - there are plenty of options. The main thing is that after decorating, you do not forget to pour syrup with gelatin over the fruit and put the cake in the refrigerator for a few hours.
Curd cake with peaches, cherries and puff pastry
This recipe has one special feature:to save time and effort, ready-made puff pastry is used. It is not a problem to get it: any housewife can buy it in a supermarket and leave it in the refrigerator until she decides to make a delicious dessert. And there is no doubt that this cake will be delicious, because the original combination of peach and cherry has never let anyone down. Ingredients:
- can of canned peaches (approximately 250 grams of fruit)
- puff pastry (ready-made) - 250 grams
- frozen cherries - 500 grams
- cottage cheese 9% fat content - 500 grams
- sugar - 250 grams
- cream of 35% fat content - 500 milliliters
- 1 cup of milk
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 4 egg yolks
- 45 grams of granulated gelatin
Method of preparation:First, you need to divide the gelatin into 2 parts - 15 and 30 grams - and soak each of them in a separate container (note: the water must be cold and necessarily boiled). After that, you can move on to the dough: roll it out into a thin layer, cut out a circle for the cake (about 30 centimeters in diameter), pierce it with a fork over the entire surface. Then you need to grease the baking sheet with butter, put the cake base on it, put it in the oven, preheated to 220 degrees. The cake must be baked for 10 minutes until its color becomes golden. The recipe for this cake involves making a classic custard. You just need to mix milk with yolks and sugar and boil it all in a water bath until the future cream thickens. Then you need to turn off the heat, add 30 grams of ready-made gelatin and mix thoroughly until smooth. The resulting cream needs to be cooled, and while it is cooling, whip the cream and rub the cottage cheese. Then you need to dry the peaches and cut them into small pieces. After that, you need to take the cooled custard, add cream, cottage cheese and canned fruit to it and mix everything thoroughly. You need to put frozen cherries in a saucepan, sprinkle it with 250 grams of sugar, pour water over it (but so that it barely covers) and bring to a boil. Then remove from heat, add the remaining 15 grams of swollen gelatin, mix everything well and let it cool. After that, you can proceed to assembling the cake (by the way, for convenience, it is better to do this in a split form). So, on the bottom, covered with cling film, you need to put a puff pastry cake and make the second "floor" of curd-cream cream. It is extremely important that the last layer hardens, so the future cake needs to be put back in the refrigerator - this time for an hour and a half. Then it needs to be filled with cherry mixture and put back to cool for 60-100 minutes. Yes, the cake takes a long time to prepare, but its original taste will repay all the efforts in the kitchen a hundredfold.
Curd cake with bananas, strawberries and raspberries
We simply couldn't ignore it.recipe with bananas, strawberries and raspberries, because children and girls love them so much. And such a cake will be very light, and this is exactly what you need to keep your figure. And, of course, this is an ideal dessert for a hot summer: homemade, not store-bought, it will not spoil even after a couple of days of storage in the refrigerator. Ingredients: for the cake:
- 300 grams of fresh cottage cheese
- sour cream of any fat content - 250 milliliters
- sugar (powder) - 8 tablespoons
- 1 peeled banana
- 200 grams of raspberries and strawberries
- 25 grams of gelatin
for the glaze:
- granulated sugar - 2 tablespoons
- melted butter - 50 milliliters
- cocoa powder - 2,5-3 tablespoons
for decoration:
- mint leaf
- berries strawberries and raspberries - 5 pieces each
Method of preparation:First, you need to pass the cottage cheese through a sieve so that it becomes softer and more tender. Then you need to add half (4 tablespoons) of granulated sugar and mix everything thoroughly. After that, in a separate bowl, you need to mix the second part of granulated sugar with sour cream just as well. Next, you need to prepare the form in which you will assemble the cake. The easiest way is to choose a deep and detachable one, because the dessert is prepared without baking, and then you will have to somehow take it out. Next, you need to wash the berries, cut the banana and strawberries into cubes and put them together with the raspberries on the bottom of the form. But at the same time, several berries need to be chopped in a blender and added as juice to the sour cream. Then you need to deal with the gelatin: gradually pour it into 100 milliliters of water poured into a saucer, stirring until it completely dissolves. After this, you need to combine the cottage cheese and sour cream, of course, mixing them well. Then you need to pour gelatin into the resulting mass, slowly, in a thin stream. And, again, mix everything thoroughly until smooth. Next, the resulting curd-sour cream mass must be spread evenly over the entire form, on top of the banana, raspberries and strawberries. The future cake must be sent to the freezer for 30 minutes, and then for an hour and a half in one of the regular chambers of your refrigerator. While the dessert hardens, you need to make chocolate glaze to cover it. To do this, you just need to thoroughly mix butter, cocoa powder and granulated sugar. After that, you just need to wait until the curd-sour cream mass completely hardens, draw the glaze into a syringe and decorate the top of the cake with it, not forgetting to put whole strawberries and raspberries, as well as mint. If you serve the dessert in portions, make sure that each piece has both mint and a whole strawberry or raspberry. Choose your curd-fruit cake - each of the above can become a real table decoration. And even better, take note of all 4 recipes, because one dessert can be prepared for a child's birthday, another - for a hen party, a third - for a regular family tea party, a fourth - as a gift for mom. But you can not be tied to specific holidays and dates, but simply make delicious, light and beautiful cakes to the delight of family and friends. We advise you to read:
