Sweet-cheese Easter Dessert Pascha
Sweet farmer’s cheese dessert, mixed with raisins and nuts. The sweet “cake” resembles cheesecake filling, if it were prepared without the crust.
I talk about how Poles celebrate Easter in my most recent cookbook dedicated to this holiday: Polish Your Kitchen: A Book of Memories, Easter Edition. The cookbook is a complete guide to preparing a Polish Easter feast following recipes that have been handed down from generation to generation in my Polish family. I hope you check it out!
To make this recipe, you will need:
- Food processor
- Double boiler or a metal bowl and a pot
- Colander
- Cheese cloth
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Sweet-cheese Easter Dessert Pascha
Sweet-cheese Easter Dessert Pascha
Ingredients
- 1 lb / 500 g of farmer's cheese
- 1⁄2 c / 100 ml of sweet cream
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 c / 100 g of powdered sugar
- 2 oz / 50 g of butter
- 1 tsp of vanilla extract
- 3⁄4 c / 70 g of walnuts
- 3⁄4 c / 100 g of raisins
- More raisins, nuts, fruit or chocolate for decoration
Instructions
Place farmer's cheese in a food processor with sweet cream and blend until smooth (2–3 minutes). Set aside.
Place egg yolks and sugar in a large metal bowl and whisk with a hand mixer until sugar is dissolved (about 3–4 minutes). Place bowl over a pot with boiling water and keep whisking. Add butter and vanilla and con- tinue whisking. Continue stirring constantly until eggs are cooked (about 7–10 minutes).
Take bowl off the heat, add farmer's cheese/cream mixture, chopped walnuts and raisins. Mix until combined.
Place a piece of cheesecloth over a colander, place a glass in the middle (to create the shape of a babka), if desired and pour cheese mixture into it (around the glass). Place colander in another plate/bowl and refrigerate overnight.
Remove from fridge, place on a round plate and decorate as desired - use more raisins and nuts, fruit or chocolate.
To serve, slice, as if you were slicing a cake.
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Sweet-cheese Easter Dessert Pascha
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