
Cottage Cheese Cake with Pastry Cream
Description
If you love mannik and have never made it with custard before, you can confidently get started. Follow the step‑by‑step recipe and delight your family with tasty baked goods. Serve it cooled or slightly warm.
Instructions
- 1
Step 1

Prepare the ingredients.
- 2
Step 2

First, make the cream; for this, add 2 eggs and 200 g of sugar to a saucepan, and beat well with a mixer until fluffy.
- 3
Step 3

Add 1 tablespoon of starch and 2 tablespoons (40 g) of flour to the sauté pan, then mix.
- 4
Step 4

Add 1 tsp vanilla extract and salt.
- 5
Step 5

Pour in 2 cups of milk, place over low heat, bring to a boil while stirring continuously. Cook for about two minutes until thickened.
- 6
Step 6

Remove the cream from the heat, add butter to the hot cream, and stir well until smooth.
- 7
Step 7

Cover the cream with plastic wrap, edge to edge, and chill.
- 8
Step 8

To make the dough, mix the eggs with yogurt.
- 9
Step 9

Pour in vegetable oil and 0.5 cup of milk.
- 10
Step 10

Add salt, sugar and vanilla extract, mix.
- 11
Step 11

Add semolina, flour, and baking powder to the dough, mix.
- 12
Step 12

Knead the dough until smooth.
- 13
Step 13

Grease the pan with butter, lightly dust with flour.
- 14
Step 14

Pour the batter into the pan.
- 15
Step 15

Transfer the cooled custard cream into a pastry bag and pipe the cream directly onto the dough in a lattice pattern.
- 16
Step 16

Bake the mannik in the oven at 180 °C for at least 40 minutes.
- 17
Step 17

Cool the finished mannik completely, remove it from the pan, and serve with tea or coffee. The mannik turned out very tasty, with a delicate cream on the outside and inside. It's a pleasure!