Shortbread pie with cottage cheese and apples
Kitchen equipment: whisk, bowls, parchment paper, silicone spatula, pie pan.
For one pie
Dough:
flour | 360 g |
sugar | 110 g |
soft margarine | 185 g |
egg | 1 PC. |
baking powder | 1 tsp. |
salt | 4 g |
Filling:
cottage cheese | 760 g |
sugar | 145 g |
eggs | 4 things. |
vanillin | 4 g |
potato starch | 110 g |
cinnamon | 5 g |
apples | 4 things. |
Cooking steps:
- First, let's prepare the shortbread dough.
- Break the egg into a bowl and add sugar. Mix with a whisk.
- Add margarine to the egg mixture and mix thoroughly again.
- Add flour, baking powder and salt. Be sure to first sift the flour through a sieve.
- Knead the dough thoroughly with your hands.
- Take our form and line it with parchment.
- Place the dough in the mold.
Carefully distribute it according to the form.
Be sure to make the sides at least three centimeters. This is necessary so that our filling does not leak out of the dough. - Now you can start preparing the filling.
- To do this, mix cottage cheese, sugar, eggs, starch and vanillin in a bowl.
- Mix the filling thoroughly using a silicone spatula. If desired, you can use an immersion blender.
- Pour the finished filling into the mold onto our dough.
- We wash the apples, peel them, remove the core and cut each apple into four parts.
- Cut each quarter into thin slices.
- Place apple slices on top of the curd filling, pressing lightly.
- Top the apples with cinnamon.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Place our pie pan in the oven. Cook for approximately 35-40 minutes.
- The finished cake should be left to cool in the mold. Only after it has cooled can you take it out and transfer it to a dish.
Video recipe for cottage cheese pie made from shortcrust pastry with apples
With this video you will learn how to cook a delicious shortbread and curd pie with apples.
Vanilla cookie dough
How to make shortcrust pastry for cookies? To do this, you can slightly modernize its recipe. Making vanilla “flour ball” yourself at home is easy and interesting. For cooking you will need:
- 1 stick of butter;
- 3 cups flour;
- a pair of eggs;
- a glass of granulated sugar;
- vanillin packet (small);
- a pinch of salt.
Step-by-step cooking instructions:
- Combine all crumbly ingredients into one mixture in a bowl. You have flour (you need to sift it), salt, sugar, vanilla.
- Cut the butter into this mixture into small cubes.
- Rub the resulting mass into “flour crumbs” with your hands; you can use a blender.
- Beat in the eggs and mix the flour ball until smooth.
- As a result, you should get a smooth and pleasant-to-touch mass with a vanilla aroma.
Pies made from shortcrust pastry will turn out excellent. Or you can simply roll it out on a board and squeeze out cookies of various funny shapes. Involve your children in the cooking process. They will love grinding the butter into crumbs and squeezing out the little animals.
Curd pie with cottage cheese and cherries
- Cooking time: 80 minutes.
- Kitchen appliances: cling film, mixer, immersion blender, frying pan, bowls, glass, pie dish.
For one pie
Dough:
flour | 210 g |
sugar | 30 g |
butter | 110 g |
salt | 4 g |
eggs | 1 PC. |
Filling:
cottage cheese | 360 g |
sugar | 165 g |
eggs | 3 pcs. |
sour cream | 55 g |
vanilla pudding | 40 g |
Sauce:
sugar | 115 g |
cherry | 1.5 tbsp. |
starch | 30 g |
water | 90 g |
Cooking steps:
- First you need to prepare the dough for the pie.
- To do this, mix flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. Be sure to sift the flour first.
- Cut the butter and add to the flour.
- Using your hands, grind the dough into crumbs.
- Beat in the egg and knead the dough with your hands.
- We form a ball from the dough, wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- While the dough is in the refrigerator, you can prepare the curd filling.
- Mix sugar and eggs in a bowl. Beat with a mixer.
- In a separate bowl, grind the cottage cheese with an immersion blender.
- Pour pudding over the cottage cheese, add sour cream and egg mixture.
Mix everything with an immersion blender. - Take the dough out of the refrigerator and place it in the mold.
- Flatten the dough into shape with your hands. Be sure to make high sides.
- Place our curd filling on the dough and carefully level it out.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Place our pie in the oven and bake it for an hour.
- While the pie is cooking, you can prepare the cherry sauce.
- For the sauce, place cherries in a frying pan, add sugar and add water.
- Place the frying pan on medium heat.
- We dilute starch in a third of a glass of water.
- When our sauce boils, reduce the heat to low and stir.
- Let the sauce simmer for 12 minutes.
- Then gradually pour in the starch diluted with water, stirring constantly.
- Cook the sauce until thick (usually about four minutes).
- Remove the pie from the oven and let it cool slightly.
- Pour the sauce onto the slightly cooled pie and spread it over the surface of the pie.
- When the cake has cooled completely, you can remove it from the pan and transfer it to a plate.
Video recipe for shortbread pie with cottage cheese and berries
In this video you will learn the process of making shortbread and curd pie with cherries.
Curd pie made from shortcrust pastry
The wonderful aroma of cinnamon and vanilla with light notes of curd will not leave anyone indifferent. Shortbread and curd pie is easy to prepare, and the taste of this dessert will please even the most demanding sweet tooth. This light shortbread pie has graced my holiday table many times.
To prepare, you will need: a springform baking pan with a diameter of 25 centimeters (you can also take a regular one, lined with baking paper), two deep bowls, a sieve, refrigerator, oven.
Products used:
Granulated sugar | 300 g |
Baking soda | 1 tsp. |
Vinegar | 2 tsp. |
Butter | 1 tbsp. l. |
Wheat flour (premium grade) | 500 g |
Vanilla sugar | 10 g |
Eggs | 3 pcs. |
Cinnamon | 5 g |
Medium fat cottage cheese | 500 g |
Margarine | 250 g |
Preparing the dough
- Mix the cottage cheese with half a glass of sugar, add vanilla sugar and cinnamon. Stir until smooth.
- Then add two chicken eggs and stir again.
- Then we take premium wheat flour and sift it through a sieve, pour in the remaining sugar.
- Take margarine and heat it in a water bath or microwave. Pour softened margarine into flour.
- Quench the baking soda with vinegar and combine with the flour mixture. Add the remaining egg here. Grind the resulting mass with your hands until it becomes crumbs, and then divide it into two parts, with one part being slightly larger than the other.
- Grease a springform baking pan (one-piece baking pan should be lined with baking paper) and distribute most of the dough along the bottom, forming sides along the edges.
- Spread the curd filling on top and cover with the remaining dough.
Shortbread dough goes well with sweet filling. But if you want to add a little sourness, then you can bake a magnificent shortbread pie with cottage cheese and cherries or berries, simply adding them to the filling.
If the pie is not covered with the top layer of dough, you will get another version of shortbread pie with cottage cheese, which is called open.
Baking and Decorating
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Place the pie in it for 45 minutes. Check the readiness of the baked goods with a toothpick. If the cake is ready, then it is dry.
- Let the shortbread pie cool and serve. This aromatic dessert will delight both home and guests. We eat with pleasure!
And those who love a variety of pastries can also prepare a wonderful - Pie with cottage cheese in the oven -, or - Curd pie with crumbs -.
Recipe with video
This video shows another option for making a pie with curd and cherry filling.
Chocolate shortbread pie with cottage cheese
- Cooking time: 75 minutes.
- Kitchen appliances: bowls, mixer, parchment, pie pan.
For one pie
Dough:
butter | 205 g |
flour | 310 g |
sugar | 75 g |
cocoa | 95 g |
vanillin | 4 g |
Filling:
sour cream | 160 g |
cottage cheese | 510 g |
eggs | 3 pcs. |
sugar | 155 g |
starch | 60 g |
vanillin | 4 g |
Cooking steps:
- First of all, you need to prepare the dough.
- For the dough, mix cocoa, flour, sugar and vanillin in a bowl. Be sure to sift the flour through a sieve.
- Add chopped butter to the dry ingredients in a bowl.
- Using your hands, mix the dough into crumbs.
- Line the pan with parchment and pour out half of the dough.
- Now let's start preparing the filling.
- In a bowl, mix eggs, vanilla and sugar. Beat with a mixer until foam forms.
- Mix sour cream, cottage cheese and starch in a separate bowl. Mix thoroughly with a silicone spatula, spoon or immersion blender.
- Mix the curd mass with the egg mixture and place in the mold.
- Pour the second half of the dough on top of the filling.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Place our pie in the oven and bake for an hour.
- Cool the cake in the mold. And only when it has cooled completely do we transfer it to a dish.
Video recipe for chocolate-curd pie made from shortcrust pastry
This video will help you properly prepare a simple shortcrust pastry pie with cottage cheese.
How to make a pie with cottage cheese from shortcrust pastry - recipe with photo in the oven
First you need to prepare all the products listed in the recipe for shortcrust pastry pie. For this dish, it is best to use soft cottage cheese with a fat content of at least 5-9%. Instead of vanillin, you can use vanilla sugar.
Next you need to start preparing the shortcrust pastry for the cottage cheese pie. To do this, you need to mash the chilled butter with a fork or grate it on a coarse grater. Add sifted flour, salt and soda to the butter. Grind everything into homogeneous crumbs. Separately, beat the eggs with a mixer. When the foam becomes thick enough, without stopping whisking, add sugar little by little. Make sure that the volume of the mixture increases several times and it becomes lighter in color.
Combine the liquid and dry ingredients and knead an elastic dough that practically does not stick to your hands. Place the dough on a plate sprinkled with flour, wrap it in a bag and put it in the refrigerator for about half an hour.
Now you can start making the curd filling for the shortcrust pastry pie. For this purpose, the cottage cheese should be placed in a deep bowl. Add sugar, kefir, starch, vanillin and eggs to it. Stir everything thoroughly until a homogeneous mass is formed. It is best to use a mixer for this.
Lightly grease the mold with butter. For an open pie with cottage cheese made from shortcrust pastry, it is best to use a springform pan. If there is no such form, then a regular form can be covered with two strips cut from baking paper, so that the edges of these strips hang slightly over the edges of the form.
Take the dough out of the refrigerator and roll it out to a size slightly larger than the diameter of the mold. Carefully transfer the dough into the mold and make sides 5-6 cm high.
Turn on the oven and preheat it to 180 degrees. Place the curd filling in the prepared pan, then place it in the oven.
Bake the cottage cheese pie from shortcrust pastry for 45 minutes, after which it is advisable to move the pie to a higher level in the oven and bake for another 15 minutes. After this, remove the pan from the oven and be sure to allow it to cool slightly. Then you can transfer the cake to a ceramic dish. It will be convenient to do this by grasping the edges of the paper strips. You can cut the cake only after it has cooled completely. Before presenting the pie to guests, you can decorate it with grated chocolate, raisins or berries.
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We wish everyone bon appetit!
Good advice
- Butter and margarine can be used interchangeably in dough. It all depends on your preferences.
- You can adjust the amount of sugar in the filling according to your taste.
- Instead of cherries, you can use any berries, fresh or frozen.
- Oven wattages may vary, so cake cooking times may vary. To check for doneness, pierce the cake in the middle with a toothpick or match. If the dough does not remain on the match or toothpick, then the pie is ready.
When I have very little time to prepare dessert, I make cottage cheese pie with crumbs. It consists of only five ingredients and requires no more than ten minutes of active cooking. You can prepare a pie with cottage cheese in the oven using any dough. But it is important to remember that different doughs require different consistency of filling. But the taste will definitely be amazing. I recently cooked cottage cheese pie in a slow cooker and noticed that it turned out more tender and airy than in the oven.
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