Cake with Cottage Cheese Cream, Mandarins, and Pistachios

Baking and Desserts | Irish cuisine

⏳ Time

50 minutes

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

Cake with cottage cheese cream, mandarins, and pistachios

Ingredients

Butter - 4.4 oz
Farm fresh eggs - 4 pieces
Sugar - 7.9 oz
Lemon - 1 piece
Salt - to taste
Baking Powder - 1 teaspoon
Wheat Flour - 4.2 oz
Mandarins - 5 pieces
Cottage cheese - 17.6 oz
Gelatin - 0.6 oz
Cream - 17 fl oz
Pistachios - 1.8 oz
Raspberry gin - 2 tablespoons

Step by Step guide

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 392°F.

Step 2

Cream the softened butter with 100 g of sugar, salt, zest, and 2 eggs. Add the flour mixed with baking powder. Knead the dough and place it in a greased springform pan. Bake for 30 minutes. Allow the baked layer to cool and cut it into 2 layers.

Step 3

Soak and dissolve the gelatin in mandarin juice.

Step 4

Mix the cottage cheese, egg yolks, sugar, vanilla sugar, and lemon juice. Add the dissolved gelatin. Whip the cream and fold it into the cottage cheese mixture. Whip the egg whites and gently fold them into the main mixture.

Step 5

Peel 2 mandarins from the skin and membranes. Cut each segment in half. Add the pulp to the cream.

Step 6

Layer the cake with cream. Spread raspberry jam on the surface of the cake, arrange the peeled mandarin segments, and sprinkle with chopped pistachios.