You will again need to acquire the Hungarian 'turo' or Polish 'twarog' version of cottage cheese...or sacrifice your room mate's pillowcase (this was my math professor's suggestion in high school, when I looked to him for a solution to the soggy cottage cheese draining problem), of course, some of you may own a very high-tech cheese cloth for just this purpose.
Ingredients
cake:
10 tbsp sugar
10 tbsp vegetable oil
13 tbsp milk
13 tbsp flour
2 tbsp cocoa powder
4 eggs
1/2 tbsp baking powder
'filling':
1 pound drained cottage cheese
4 tbsp semolina/farina flour
1 egg
3/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp vanilla sugar (or vanilla extract+1 tbsp sugar)
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 375F.
Grease and flour a 9x11 inch baking shape.
Mix the cottage cheese with the egg, semolina, sugar and vanilla until smooth. Set aside.
Separate the eggs. Mix the egg yolks with the sugar until pale yellow and fluffy. Blend in the oil, milk and finally the flour pre-sifted with the baking and the cocoa powders.
Whip up the egg whites until it forms hard peaks. Fold into the rest of the batter.
Pour the batter into the baking shape and drop little spoonfuls of the cottage cheese mix all over on top. They will sink in to variable depths as you bake the cake.
we should make that next year!
ReplyDeleteIn 2011, or once we move to the same place?
ReplyDeleteBut we definitely should!
GO for Vermont-themed desserts :)
ReplyDeleteoh my, couldn't even begin to tell you how much I miss this!!
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