Royal Vatrushka: A Step-by-Step Recipe with Cottage Cheese in the Oven

For those who love sweet pies with cottage cheese, today we've prepared a classic step-by-step recipe for a dish called "Royal Cheesecake." Even the name suggests that we won't be making a typical yeast pastry with a cottage cheese center, but a pie that looks more like a cake and tastes just as good as today's popular ones. cheesecakes.

Royal Cheesecake with Cottage Cheese: A Classic Step-by-Step Recipe

Nutritional value per serving

300.5 kcal

Proteins: 10.1 g
Fats: 17.2 g
Carbohydrates: 26.2 g

*Nutritional value is calculated per 100g of ingredients

Total time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Time in the kitchen: 1 hour 20 minutes
Complexity:

A simple recipe.
Number of servings: 8

The history of this dish dates back to pagan times, when our ancestors, in honor of Yarilo, baked pies shaped like the disk of the sun. The tradition of baking vatrushki for Maslenitsa has survived to this day.

Royal (Tsar's) cheesecake This dessert will captivate your heart with its amazing combination of crisp shortcrust pastry and a delicate cheese layer. This dessert is easy and quick to prepare, without any complicated kneading or rolling out of dough, making it perfect for home cooking.

Our royal cottage cheese tart will be baked in the oven, and to prepare it you will need:

immersion blender;
2 containers;
fine grater;
baking dish with a diameter of 20 cm;
baking paper;
shoulder blade.

Recipe for baking royal cheesecake with cottage cheese in the oven

Royal Cheesecake with Cottage Cheese – A Simple Step-by-Step Recipe

Ingredients

Servings

Ingredients for the cake:

Flour

250 G
Sugar

50 G
Butter

120 G
Lemon zest

1 tsp
Baking powder

1 tsp
Vanilla sugar

10 G

Ingredients for the cheese layer:

Cottage cheese

348 G
Sour cream

50 G
Egg C1

1 pcs
Vanilla sugar

10 G
Cornstarch

1 tsp

Ingredients for the sauce:

Sour cream

50 G
Condensed milk

50 G

Preparation

Step 1

Sift 250 grams of wheat flour, 50 grams of sugar, a pinch of salt, and a teaspoon of baking powder into a mixing bowl. Mix all dry ingredients thoroughly.

Step 2

Add 1 teaspoon of fresh lemon zest to the dry ingredients.

This ingredient is optional. Add it if you like a bright citrus note. You can substitute orange zest for the lemon zest if desired.

Step 3

Add 120 grams of softened butter to the mixture. It's best to remove the butter from the refrigerator ahead of time and let it soften.

Step 4

Rub the butter and flour thoroughly.

Step 5

As a result, you should get a crumbly, buttery crumb, as in the photo.

Step 6

Divide the dough into three parts. Set one part aside on a separate plate (we'll need these crumbs for the final dusting of the royal vatrushka).

Step 7

Pour the remaining 2/3 of the crumb mixture into a baking pan, lining the bottom with parchment paper. There's no need to grease the sides, as the crumb mixture is quite greasy and will easily come off after baking.

The crumbs need to be formed into the bottom and sides of the pie. This can be done easily by pressing the crumbs down with a round glass with a smooth, even bottom.

We used a small 20 cm diameter pan. If we used a 26 cm pan, the vatrushka would be large but thin. If you want to make a larger pie, you should proportionally recalculate the ingredients in the recipe.

Step 8

In a container, pour 350 grams of cottage cheese, 50 grams of regular sugar, 10 grams (1 packet) of vanilla sugar, 50 grams of sour cream and 1 egg (use both the white and the yolk).

It's also worth adding 5 grams of cornstarch. This ingredient is optional, but it will give our cottage cheese center a particularly velvety, airy texture.

Step 9

Beat everything with an immersion blender until a homogeneous mass is formed.

Step 10

Transfer the curd mixture into the pan and smooth it out so that it covers the entire dough. You can do this with a spatula or a simple spoon.

Step 11

Cover the top of the curd filling with the remaining crumbs, carefully forming the top layer.

Step 12

The pie must be baked in the oven at 180℃ approximately 50-60 minutes (in the “top + bottom” mode without convection).

Step 13

The exact baking time depends on your oven's features and available settings. Typically, to determine the optimal baking time, you should bake in a Royal Oven at least once, carefully observing the cake's progress after 40 minutes.

Cook until slightly convex and nicely browned, as in the photo.

Don't rush to remove the cheesecake from the pan. It needs to cool completely first, so remove it from the oven and let it rest in the pan for about 2 hours.

Step 14

Once the royal cheesecake has cooled completely, remove the pan and transfer our homemade classic cheesecake to a beautiful serving dish.

Step 15

Our royal cheesecake is already a beautiful dish on its own, but the recipe calls for a delicious sauce, which can be made by simply mixing a little sour cream with condensed milk in a 50:50 ratio.

The sauce can be served separately, or poured over individual pieces before serving, as in the photo.

Be sure to save this step-by-step recipe, because we're sure this easy-to-make and incredibly delicious homemade royal cheesecake will become your family's favorite treat.

You can diversify the recipe by adding fresh cherries, strawberries, peaches, dried apricots or any other fruit to the delicate cheese flavor. jam.