How to cook light, fast and at the same timedelicious dessert? It's very simple: you need to make a curd-fruit cake - it will be a major chord of any tea party. Prepare such a dessert will not only be experienced, but also a beginner mistress, and at the same time she will not have to work 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, that is also important, in dessert there will be a minimum of harmful for the figure of the test and maximum ease. It remains only to choose a suitable recipe for a cake that can please home sweeties, girlfriends or colleagues. Well this will not be a problem, because there are lots of options: you can make a dessert with peaches, oranges, kiwi, add strawberries, raspberries and other berries to it. In this article there are just a variety of options: any cake recipe is unique and interesting in its own way. Simply cook each of the four curd desserts offered by us, choose the one that you like most, and more often please them home, friends or colleagues. Such culinary experiments will not have time to get bored or get dressed, because they will be so delicious! By the way, not the fact that you will choose only one recipe for a cake - most likely, your cookbook will be replenished with several. 
Fruit and curd cake without baking
This is an excellent dessert for children, whichnecessarily enjoy the small sweet tooth with its bright taste. And for their moms, this cottage cheese cake with fruits and biscuits is more than convenient: you need to cook it without baking, so that even a young and novice mistress can cope. Plus, you can do 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
Cooking method: The first thing to do is turn 200-250 grams of cookies into small crumbs. In order not to waste time, you can just put it in a bag and walk it a few times with a rolling pin. The resulting crumb should be mixed with 150 grams of butter, previously softened (let half an hour stand at room temperature). The cake is made without baking, but here a form is needed for it. The bottom of this dish should be covered with ordinary oiled paper, then evenly put on it the resulting homogeneous mass of crumb and oil. Thus, you will form a cake, which will need to be left in the refrigerator for about an hour and a half. In the meantime, the lemon must be squeezed out of the juice, a little warm it and dissolve in it 20 grams of gelatin. Half a glass of sugar must be poured into the cottage cheese and mix well. Then you need to add to the resulting curd mass juice with gelatin and half of candied fruits. After that, mix thoroughly again. This curd mass should be evenly put on the already cooled cake of breadcrumbs. The dessert is almost ready - it remains to decorate it. To do this, it is necessary to cut kiwi and oranges with mugs (the latter, by the way, can be made simply with lobules) and lay them on the top layer of the cake together with the remaining half of the candied fruit. It will be even more interesting if you make a drawing with the help of fruit - this recipe is also good because it gives you some scope for imagination and creativity. After the cake should be put for 3-4 hours in the refrigerator. When this time passes, it can be safely served to the table - small sweeties will be delighted. 
Cottage cheese and fruit cake with pastry
This dessert attracts a combination of nutritionshort dough and lightness of cottage cheese. And as a bonus - the brightness and saturation of apricots, nectarines, peaches with a slight taste of red wine. Yes, the recipe includes alcohol, so this is a dessert for adults only. But it is highly appreciated even by those who are indifferent to the sweet. And this cake looks beautiful and even spectacular - it can be proudly put on a festive table. Ingredients: for 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
Cooking method: Naturally, in the first place you need to make a shortcake from a short pastry. It is necessary only to chop the margarine and mix it well with the rest of the ingredients: with flour, salt, yolk and baking powder. If the dough turns out to be too soft, you can put it in the freezer (literally for 5 minutes). Then you need to do in the form of cakes, bake it in the oven and cool it. In fact, it is necessary to cook a short dough in the usual way - nothing new or complicated. With the curd layer, too, do not have to fuss around for a long time. The recipe for this cake is generally very light - it is designed for a busy hostess. You just need to mix the cottage cheese with sour cream and sugar, add starch and vanilla sugar, enter 1 protein and 1 egg. After that all this is necessary to whip well with a mixer, and the base for the next layer of the cake is ready. The resulting mass should be evenly laid out on the already cooled cake from a short dough and sent back to the oven. This time it is necessary to bake for 40 minutes, until the top layer blushes; the temperature should be 170 degrees. The future cake should be cooled. Preparation of the fruit layer is the most difficult, but also the most interesting and even creative activity. First you need to take a bag of gelatin, pour it with 50 milliliters of wine and leave for 40 minutes to make it swell. The remaining 150 milliliters of alcohol should be placed on a slow fire, add cinnamon with cloves and sugar and crock for 5 minutes. Then strain the resulting syrup, and stirring, pour into gelatin. It's time to go to fruit: you need to cut the peaches, nectarines, apricots and put them on the cooled cottage cheese layer. And here comes the time of the creative: you can make some drawing, playing with yellow, red, orange flowers. You can cut the fruit in circles or straws. You can cover them with the top of the cake completely or lay out some figures. The recipe can be supplemented by including in it also strawberries or some other berry - there are enough options. The main thing is that after the decoration you do not forget to fill the fruit with syrup with gelatin and put the cake for several hours in the refrigerator. 
Curd cake with peaches, cherries and puff pastry
This recipe has one feature: to save time and effort, the ready-made puff pastry is taken. Get it is not a problem: any landlady can buy it in a supermarket and leave it in the refrigerator until she decides to make a delicious dessert. And the fact that this cake will be tasty is not to be doubted, because the original combination of peach and cherries still did not fail. 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
Cooking method: The first step is to separate the gelatin into 2 parts - 15 and 30 grams - and soak each of them in a separate container (attention, the water must be cold and necessarily boiled). Then you can proceed to the test: roll it out with a thin layer, cut out a circle for the cake (about 30 centimeters in diameter), pierce it with a fork over the entire surface. After you need to grease the baking tray with oil, lay on it the base of the cake, send it to the oven, preheated to 220 degrees. The biscuit must be baked for 10 minutes until its color turns golden. The recipe for this cake involves the preparation of a classic custard. You just need to mix the 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 fire, add 30 grams of ready-made gelatin and mix thoroughly until smooth. The resulting cream should be cooled, but while it cools, whip the cream and rub cottage cheese. Then you need to dry peaches and cut them into small pieces. After that, you need to take a cooled custard, add cream, cottage cheese and canned fruit to it and mix everything thoroughly. In a saucepan, put a frozen cherry, cover it with 250 grams of sugar, pour it with water (but so that it is barely covered) and bring to a boil. Then remove from heat, add to it the remaining 15 grams of swollen gelatin, mix well and send off to cool. Then you can proceed to assembly of the cake (by the way, for convenience, it is better to do it in a detachable form). So, on the bottom, covered with food film, it is necessary to lay out the cake of puff pastry and make the second "floor" from cream cheese cream. It is extremely important that the last layer is frozen, so the future cake should be sent back to the refrigerator - this time for an hour and a half. Then it must be filled with a cherry mixture and again put it to cool for 60-100 minutes. Yes, the cake is being cooked for a long time, but its original taste is a hundredfold that will pay off all the efforts in the kitchen.
Curd cake with bananas, strawberries and raspberries
We just could not ignore the recipewith bananas, strawberries and raspberries, because they are so fond of children and girls. Yes, and this cake will be very easy, and this is exactly what you need to save the figure. And, of course, this is the perfect dessert for a hot summer: cooked by hand, and not bought in a store, it will not deteriorate even for a couple of days of storage in the refrigerator. Ingredients: for 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 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
Cooking method: The first thing to do is to skip the cottage cheese through a sieve so that it becomes softer and more tender. Then to it it is necessary to add half (4 table spoons) of granulated sugar and carefully all to mix. After that, in a separate bowl you must mix the second part of granulated sugar with sour cream as well. Next, you need to prepare a form in which you will collect the cake. The easiest way to choose a deep and separable, because the dessert is cooked without baking, and then it will have to somehow get it. Next, you need to rinse the berries, cut the banana and strawberries into cubes and put them along with the raspberries on the bottom of the mold. But at the same time a few berries must be crushed in a blender and add them in the form of juice in sour cream. Then you need to do gelatin: gradually pour it into 100 milliliters of water in a saucer, stirring until it dissolves to the end. After that it is necessary to combine cottage cheese and sour cream, of course, mixing them well. And then you need to pour in the resulting mass of gelatin, and not hurrying up, a thin trickle. And, again, mix thoroughly until smooth. Next, the resulting curd-sour cream mass should be evenly laid out over the whole form, on top of a banana, raspberries and strawberries. The future cake should be sent for 30 minutes in the freezer, and after that - for an hour and a half in one of the usual chambers of your refrigerator. While the dessert freezes, it is necessary to make chocolate icing for its covering. To do this, you just need to mix well the butter, cocoa powder and granulated sugar. After that, you just have to wait until the cottage cheese-sour cream finally stiffens, collect the glaze in the syringe and decorate it with the top of the cake, not forgetting to lay out whole berries of strawberries and raspberries, as well as mint. If you serve a portion of dessert, make sure that every morsel of it contains mint, a whole strawberry or malinka. Choose your cheese-fruit cake - each of the above can become a real decoration of the table. And even better, take note of all 4 recipes, because one dessert can be prepared for the birthday of the child, the other - for the hen party, the third - for a regular family tea, the fourth - as a gift to my mother. But you can not attach to specific holidays and dates, but simply make delicious, light and beautiful cakes for the joy of family and friends. We advise you to read:
