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Curd cake with berries.

This cheesecake - the elder brother of American cheesecake, only a native of Germany. Due to the almost non-fat cottage cheese pastries such turns tender. Curd can be put on the traditional thin shortcake or a base of crushed cookies, for cheesecake.

Suitable not only berries, but also lemon vanilla flavoring for curd test.

We will need these ingredients:

For the cake:
• 2 eggs + 2 egg yolks
• a pinch of salt
• 350 g cottage cheese (a uniform, low-fat)
• 100 ml of low-fat cream
• 100 g of finely crystalline sugar
• 3 tbsp. l. raspberry jam
• a few fresh raspberries (knead)
• 1 hour. L. vanilla extract
• 1 tbsp. l. starch

Curd cake with berries.

For decoration:
• 225 g assorted fresh fruits and berries (raspberries, blackcurrants, blackberries, blueberries, peaches and nectarines)
• sprigs of mint

Utensil:
• deep round silicone mold with a diameter of 20 cm
• a deep baking dish

Curd cake with berries.

Cooking method:
1.  Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Separate the yolks from whites, put the past in the average capacity. Proteins with a pinch of salt, beat with a mixer in a metal or glass container to form a dense rigid foam. Set aside.

2.  Add the yolks to the cheese, cream, sugar, jam, mashed raspberries, vanilla extract, and starch. Thoroughly rub the wooden spoon into a homogeneous creamy mass.

Pour it into the beaten egg whites and mix gently, moving the spoon from the bottom up (instead of a circle), to mass became homogeneous, but has not lost protein lightness.

Place in a deep baking dish and pour the silicone mold in her cottage cheese cooked dough. Smooth surface.

Pour into a mold-base water so that it covered the walls of the mold to a height of 2.5 centimeters. Bake for 30-40 minutes, check availability: borehole must remain clean after piercing the center of the torte.

Carefully separate the sides with a knife from the walls of the mold products. Turn off the oven and let the cake cool in oven with door ajar.

3.  The cooled cheesecake turn on a dish and put in the fridge. Before serving, place on a product prepared fruit and berries and garnish with sprigs of mint.

About the dish:
Lovers Cheesecake with Pleasure to taste this cake, pleasing supporters of their low calorie diets, because instead of cream cheese you use cottage cheese.

For 8 persons:
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 30-40 minutes
Oven temperature: 160 "C