Easter Cake with Dates

Baking and Desserts | Italian cuisine

⏳ Time

10 hours

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

Easter Cake with Dates

Ingredients

Cottage cheese - 2 lbs
Butter - 14.1 oz
Sugar - 1 cup
Farm fresh eggs - 6 pieces
Dates - 5.3 oz
Lemon - 2 pieces

Step by Step guide

Step 1

Cut the dates into 4 pieces and drizzle them with the juice of two lemons, let them soak.

Step 2

Puree the cottage cheese (1 kg) in a blender.

Step 3

You can make the cottage cheese yourself: to prepare 1 kg of cottage cheese, you need about 8 liters of sour milk, which should be brought to a boil in a pot and boiled for 5–10 minutes. Then strain through cheesecloth (or a sieve) and squeeze well. Place the prepared cottage cheese in a bowl and let it cool.

Step 4

Add 1 cup of sugar, 400 g of softened butter, 6 egg yolks, and the dates in lemon juice to the cottage cheese. Mix everything together.

Step 5

Take a mold for the Easter cake (if you don't have a special Easter mold, you can use a colander or a flower pot with holes in the bottom), line it with wet cheesecloth in 2 layers, transfer the cottage cheese mixture into it, and cover the top with the edges of the cheesecloth. Place the mold over a pot to catch the liquid, put a weight on top, and refrigerate everything for a day.