Cottage Cheese Cake (Творожный Кекс)
This traditional Russian dessert is rich, milky, buttery, and oh so delicious! It actually reminds me of pound cake.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 60 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Yield: 6-8 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: Russian
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups white flour
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 2 sticks butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 5 eggs
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp white vinegar
- pinch of salt
- 1/4 cup raisins
- powdered sugar for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Grease your baking dish and set aside.
- Soak raisins in hot water for 5 minutes, then drain.
- For best results, process cottage cheese in a food processor until texture is fine.
- Separate egg yolks and whites.
- In a large bowl with a mixer running on medium, combine butter, sugar, vanilla extract, cottage cheese, and egg yolks until well-mixed.
- Combine flour and salt and add to butter mixture a little at a time, mixing with a hand mixer on low until flour is fully incorporated.
- Combine baking soda and vinegar and add to flour mixture, mixing well. Set aside.
- Beat egg whites until stiff.
- Gently fold egg whites into flour mixture until it is fully incorporated.
- Pour batter into greased baking dish and level the batter.
- Bake for 35-60 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Let cool. Remove from baking dish and dust with powdered sugar.
Notes
*Start checking your cake at 35 minutes. Mine was done around then, but it can take up to an hour, depends on your oven.