Cottage cheese Easter cake with vanilla paste

10 servings

60 minutes

Nazgul Abikova, pastry chef at DOM (Sochi), shared the recipe with us.

Energy value per serving

• Calories: 619.2
• Proteins: 11.8g
• Fats: 26.6g
• Carbohydrates: 85.4g

Ingredients

• Milk: 115 ml
• Chicken egg: 115 g
• Egg yolk: 120 g
• Dry yeast: 25 g
• Sugar: 155 g
• Honey: 35 g
• Salt: 5 g
• Vanilla paste: 30 g
• Wheat flour: 500 g
• Butter: 190 g
• Cremette cheese: 155 g
• Raisin: 380 g
• Orange zest: 30 g

Cooking steps

1. Mix milk, eggs, yolk, yeast, sugar, salt, honey, and vanilla paste in a bowl.

   Required ingredients:

   • Milk: 115 ml
   • Chicken egg: 115 g
   • Egg yolk: 120 g
   • Dry yeast: 25 g
   • Sugar: 155 g
   • Salt: 5 g
   • Honey: 35 g
   • Vanilla paste: 30 g

2. Then add flour.

   Required ingredients:

   • Wheat flour: 500 g

3. Whip all ingredients until homogeneous, until the dough starts to separate from the walls.

4. Add softened butter, cream cheese (Kremette), and mix. The result should be an elastic dough.

   Required ingredients:

   • Butter: 190 g
   • Cremette cheese: 155 g

5. At the end, mix in the raisins and orange zest.

   Required ingredients:

   • Raisin: 380 g
   • Orange zest: 30 g

6. Let the dough rest covered with film at room temperature for 1.5–2 hours.

7. After the dough rises, distribute it into molds. Place it for proofing until the dough rises: there should be 1.5 cm left to the edge of the mold.

8. Then bake in the oven at 170 degrees for 20 minutes.

9. Cover the finished kulich with egg white glaze and decorate to taste.