Cherry and cottage cheese cream sponge cake
Description
Delicious baked treat for the whole family. This cake can be prepared for any celebration or simply to delight your family with something tasty on a weekend. The cake base is easy to make and always turns out perfectly. The gentle cottage cheese cream with slightly tart cherries won't weigh down your stomach and will surely be loved by everyone. This cake doesn't need to sit to soak in flavors, so it's prepared quite quickly (not counting the sponge cake's "resting" time). Let's cook something easy and delicious!
Instructions
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Step 1
1. First, we need to bake the sponge cake. Crack the eggs into a bowl, add regular sugar, vanilla sugar, and a pinch of salt.
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Step 2
2. And beat for about 5 minutes until the mixture increases in volume and lightens in color.
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Step 3
3. Add the flour mixed with baking powder and mix with a mixer at low speed until smooth.
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Step 4
4. Line a baking pan (24-26 cm) with parchment paper.
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Step 5
5. Pour the batter into the pan, smooth it out.
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Step 6
6. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for about 30-35 minutes. Check for doneness with a wooden skewer. Let the sponge cake rest for at least 2 hours.
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Step 7
7. Remove the pits from the cherries and let the liquid drain off. Sprinkle the cherries with sugar (you can add a spoonful of vodka or brandy) and let them sit for about two hours to infuse. Add sugar to the cherry juice to taste; this will be the syrup for soaking the biscuit.
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Step 8
8. The sponge cake has rested, cut it into three layers. Soak each layer with cherry juice.
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Step 9
9. Pass the cottage cheese through a sieve, add 75-100 ml of cream, sugar to taste, and vanilla sugar. Blend with a mixer until smooth.
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Step 10
10. Whip the cream (350 ml) with sugar until stiff peaks form, add the cottage cheese mixture, and beat until smooth.
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Step 11
11. Set aside one-third of the cream in a separate bowl, and add the cherries to the remaining cream, then mix well.
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Step 12
12. Spread the first cake layer with cream, cover with the second layer, and spread it as well.
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Step 13
13. Cover with the third layer and spread the cherry-free cream over the top and sides.
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Step 14
14. For decoration, melt the chocolate in cream over a water bath, stirring thoroughly until smooth.
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Step 15
15. Pour the cooled (!!!) chocolate mixture over the cake.
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Step 16
16. And decorate as desired.