Delicious chocolate cake with cheese curd balls
Description
Homemade baking for tea. Despite being quite simple to prepare, this chocolate cake with cottage cheese balls looks very festive and elegant. This cake is perfect for celebrations or afternoon tea with friends. Be sure to use dark chocolate, as it creates a beautiful contrast between the chocolate batter and the cottage cheese balls. It's best to bake the cake in a 21 cm springform pan, as it makes removal easier. Serve cooled or slightly warm.
Instructions
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Step 1
1. Mix the cottage cheese with starch, sugar, coconut flakes, and egg yolks using a potato masher. Line the bottom of a baking pan with parchment paper and grease the sides with vegetable oil.
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Step 2
2. Shape the cottage cheese into balls with your hands and arrange them evenly in the baking dish. Mix together cocoa, flour, starch, vanilla sugar, and baking powder.
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Step 3
3. Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form, then add sugar and beat until stiff peaks form again. Beat the egg yolks with sugar using a mixer until light and fluffy.
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Step 4
4. Add the black chocolate melted over a water bath and beat well. Alternating, add the dry mixture and beaten egg whites to the yolks in three batches.
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Step 5
5. Mix the batter and pour it over the cottage cheese balls. Bake in a preheated oven at 175 degrees for 35 minutes. Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
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Step 6
6. Prepare the icing: melt the dark chocolate over a water bath, mixing it with butter and cream. Cover the cooled pie with the icing.