How to make a cottage cheese cake without baking?

Remember in the American TV series “Friends” two characters – Rachel and Chandler – ate a cheese pie? That’s what Russian translators called it, making a literal “tracing paper” from English: “cheese” - cheese and “cake” - pie or cake.

In fact, this is nothing more than a classic cheesecake - a cake with cream cheese filling and a cookie crust. It is in this form that it is familiar to our coffee shop regulars and culinary masters. Sometimes you can find it in stores under the name “curd cake.”

How to make an American dessert

In our stores it is not so easy to find the special Philadelphia cream cheese, which is also added to rolls. Therefore, you can replace it with soft, non-grained cottage cheese. Then you get a curd cake - a delicious and light dessert that has a lot of options.

You can take the easy route - choose one of our four recipes with cookies or biscuits without cooking in the oven. This version of cottage cheese cake will appeal to those who save their time and figure - fast, tasty and very simple!

Or you can show off your pastry chef skills by adapting the beauty from a fashionable coffee shop to Russian realities. Then you can pass on the recipe to friends and acquaintances or even open your own establishment. Otherwise, why would such beauty and deliciousness go to waste?

We advise you to consolidate your success by preparing the old and familiar Zebra curd cake. What if you don’t have time for it, but don’t want to make a cold pie without baking? For such a case, there is a recipe for a cake in a frying pan - for the busiest housewives.

Curd cake with fruits

A delicate dessert that can be prepared with or without cream and sour cream. We bring to your attention an extremely simple recipe for a culinary masterpiece - even a novice housewife can handle it.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• 150 grams of flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder and slaked soda
• 2 eggs
• 150 grams of sugar

For the curd filling:

• 500 grams of cottage cheese
• 1 can of condensed milk
• 30 grams gelatin
• 2 egg whites
• 150 grams of sugar
• canned fruits
• 3 oranges

Cooking method:

This is a simple recipe for cottage cheese cake with a classic sponge cake base. For this dough, sugar must be mixed with egg whites and whipped into a thick and fluffy foam. The yolks must be beaten separately and also added to the sugar. Next, add flour and a teaspoon of baking powder. To stir thoroughly. Line the bottom of the baking dish with special paper, and place the finished dough on it. Distribute evenly, cook baked goods at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.

Pour gelatin with a small amount of cold water for 25-30 minutes. Mix condensed milk with cottage cheese and beat into a homogeneous mass using a blender. Beat the sugar with the egg whites into a thick fluffy foam and add to the cottage cheese. You will have to work a little more magic on the gelatin: you need to drain the water from it and bring it to a boil in a water bath until the composition becomes homogeneous. Cool and then pour into the curd mass, whisking constantly with a blender or mixer.

Soak the baked sponge cake with fruit syrup. Place canned fruits, cut into slices, on top of it. Next, put the previously prepared mass, cut up orange slices on it and cover everything with the remaining mass. Place the finished cake with curd filling and fruit in the refrigerator for 4 hours, and then, if desired, decorate with the remaining oranges and preserves. And add sour cream cream - prepare it, taking the recipe from any of the above desserts, and enrich the taste of the dish. Bon appetit!

How to choose cottage cheese for a cake

Cheesecake in cafes and stores is tender and soft, even if not cream or soft cheese, but cottage cheese was used in its preparation. So what's the secret? The secret is in choosing the main product. It's best if you can find mascarpone cheese. Its taste and consistency are best suited for cheesecake.

True, mascarpone may not be found on store shelves, so try using one of our alternatives for the recipe.

1. Fat cottage cheese Valio. Sometimes they print a picture of a cheesecake on the packaging – you can’t go wrong.
2. Processed cheeses. If you add sugar to the cheese mass, you get the same consistency - a soft filling that holds its shape.
3. Make your own cottage cheese from sour cream. You need to put the cottage cheese in gauze, tie it and hang it over the sink overnight. Excess liquid will flow out and you will get an excellent base for a cottage cheese cake.
4. Fat cottage cheese with small grains.
5. Any cottage cheese from the store plus a little milk: beat - you get a curd mass.
6. Cottage cheese in paper packs. It is usually produced in small volumes, 180-250 grams.

There are many options for the main ingredient for a dessert recipe, the main thing is not to use cottage cheese with large particles.

Curd cake with lemon

The recipe for this cake with cottage cheese is truly special: it does not contain flour.

Ingredients:

• 300 grams of cookies
• 100 grams of butter and nuts
• 350 milliliters sour cream
• 400 grams of cottage cheese
• 3 eggs
• 3 lemons
• 1 teaspoon vanillin
• 1 cup of sugar

Cooking method:

To make a cheesecake using cookies instead of flour, you need to grind the cookies and nuts in a blender. The butter must be melted and mixed with the cookie-nut base. This mixture should be evenly distributed over the bottom and walls of the baking dish, and then put in the oven and cooked for 15 minutes at 180 degrees.

Beat sour cream and cottage cheese until a fluffy, homogeneous mass is obtained, then add beaten eggs, sugar and vanillin. Squeeze the juice out of the lemons and gradually pour, stirring, into the resulting mass. This mixture must be placed on cooled nuts and cookies and placed in the oven for 1 hour. Ready-made curd cake with lemon can be decorated with fresh berries and fruits - this recipe gives scope for using your culinary imagination. Bon appetit!

No-bake cottage cheese cake - the best recipes

Homemade cheesecake with melt-in-your-mouth cream, shortbread crust and delicious curd filling - what you need for the holiday.

If you want to please yourself and your family just like that, for no reason, cheesecake will create the right mood. So put your feet up and run to the store for the right cottage cheese.

Australian cheesecake

Why Australian? That's right, because the recipe came from a distant sunny country. When you gorge yourself on this dessert, imagine that you are not at home, but in picturesque Australia. On the ocean shore, sit in a street restaurant and try a delicate cottage cheese and chocolate cake. Indeed, what’s not to taste like a holiday?

You will need:

• 600 grams of cottage cheese;
• a stick of butter;
• 1.5 tbsp. spoons of gelatin;
• vanilla;
• 1.5 teaspoons of powdered sugar;
• chocolate cookies;
• three bars of dark chocolate.

Mix cottage cheese with powder and butter, beat in a blender. Dissolve gelatin in warm water and add to the curd mass. Add vanilla and beat again. Pour the mixture into a baking dish and leave in the refrigerator for several hours.

Melt the chocolate and set aside a quarter. Mix most of it with the crushed chocolate chip cookies. This will be the base of the curd cake - form the mixture into a cake and refrigerate for 1 hour.

Heat the curd mass slightly in hot water, then place it on the crust. Spread the remaining chocolate glaze on top and return to the refrigerator overnight, then taste.

No-bake cookie house

The simplest recipe for cottage cheese cake from Soviet childhood. This delicious dessert will create a homely atmosphere: every mother once fed her child this cake with aromatic cream.

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp. spoons of milk;
• 2 tbsp. spoons of cocoa;
• 150-200 grams of candied fruits;
• vanilla;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• a stick of butter;
• 400 grams of cottage cheese;
• 300 grams of cookies.

Grind the butter with sugar, add vanilla and chopped candied fruits.

The mass should be homogeneous, without grains.

Place cookies on parchment in three rows of five pieces each, place ½ of the curd mixture on top. Flatten.

Repeat: layer of cookies, top with a layer of curd mass and smooth again. Lift the parchment from both edges so that the cake blank folds into a house. Place the dessert in the refrigerator for several hours. Mix milk, cocoa, sugar and butter in a water bath and pour glaze over the cake.

Cottage cheese cake with gelatin

Another no-bake cheesecake is the healthiest in our selection. There is no dough or shortbread here, so it’s definitely suitable for slim girls.

You will need:

• ½ kilogram of cottage cheese;
• 300 grams of sour cream;
• 30 grams of gelatin;
• 1 glass of water;
• 200 grams of sugar/3-4 tbsp. spoons of honey;
• berries/fruits - for filling;
• chocolate/berries/mint – for decoration.

The cooking process is simple. Beat cottage cheese and sour cream with a blender, add honey or sugar.

Pour gelatin with water and keep on low heat for 3-5 minutes, then add to the curd mass and beat. Cut fruits or berries, place them on the bottom of the mold and fill with the prepared mixture. Make a few more layers like this and put the cheesecake in the refrigerator.

Cake with condensed milk and cookies

This recipe for a cottage cheese cake will help out the housewife if she doesn’t have an oven or free time. A delicious, homemade, no-bake dessert should be in every housewife's arsenal.

You will need:

• 1 can of condensed milk;
• 350 grams of cookies;
• 100-150 grams of butter;
• 200-300 grams of cottage cheese.

Melt the butter, mix with condensed milk, cottage cheese and beat in a blender. Grind the cookies into crumbs, combine with the prepared mixture and put in the refrigerator.

You can make a shortbread crust out of cookies and lay out the cake in layers: cookies, then curd and butter filling.

Dough recipe

Boil water in a saucepan and lower a deep ladle into it. Place the butter in it and, when it starts to melt, add sugar. Mix with a whisk and beat in the eggs. When all the sugar has dissolved, add half of the pre-sifted flour little by little.

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Stir thoroughly and transfer the ladle to a board. Beat the cheese in a blender and place it in a ladle. Stir and then add the other half of the flour. Knead into a soft, shape-holding dough. Form it into a ball, wrap it in film and place it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

Recipes for cottage cheese cake in the oven

The following recipes require skill: they won't cook as quickly, but they will show your culinary skills!

Classic curd cake

Almost as tasty as cheesecake, but the recipe is closer to the Russian consumer: affordable products and homemade taste. Everything we love! And no less suitable for a holiday.

You will need:

• 500 grams of cottage cheese;
• 500 grams of sour cream;
• 1 egg;
• 450 grams of flour;
• 400 grams of sugar;
• baking soda/baking powder;
• vanilla;
• lemon zest.

Mix half the cottage cheese, half the sugar and eggs. Beat with a blender and add baking powder or slaked soda. Add flour little by little, knead the dough and put it in the refrigerator for several hours.

We make cakes. Take out the dough, divide into 6-7 parts. Roll each part into a thin layer of 3-4 mm, pierce with a fork. Bake the cakes separately.

Beat the remaining cottage cheese with sugar, sour cream and vanilla. Place the cakes on top of each other, spreading the curd cream on top. Grease the sides of the cake and put it in the refrigerator.

Curd and yoghurt cake

Healthy, tasty and easy cake from the oven - that's all about this sweet holiday! The cake is loved by girls who prefer a fresh, unsweetening taste of dessert. The recipe is not easy, but it has minimal calories and is very tasty!

You will need:

• 2 eggs;
• 100 grams of flour;
• 350 grams of sugar;
• 600 grams of cottage cheese;
• 600 grams of yogurt;
• 300 grams of any berry;
• 200 ml cream;
• 25 grams of gelatin.

Beat the eggs, add 100 grams of sugar, add flour and mix. Pour into a greased pan and bake in the oven for 15 minutes at 180 degrees.

Grind the berries into puree, leaving a few for decoration. Add 50 grams of sugar and stir. Dissolve gelatin in water, put cream on fire and mix with gelatin until dissolved.

Add yogurt to the curd mixture, mix with sugar, beat. Add two thirds of the gelatin mixture to the curd mixture, one third to the berries.

Place the curd mixture on the biscuit, then the berry puree. Place in the refrigerator. Place a few spoons of curd cream and berries on the frozen cake.

Simple cottage cheese cake in a frying pan

Same homemade taste, only much faster! Even your child can do this recipe - let him throw a party for his mother.

You will need:

• 1 egg;
• 200 grams of cottage cheese;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• vanilla;
• 1 cup flour;
• baking powder.

Grind the egg with sugar, add cottage cheese, vanilla, baking powder, then gradually add flour. Divide into 6-7 parts and roll into cakes. Place the cakes alternately on the frying pan and bake on both sides.

Prepare the cream: beat 1 egg with 1 glass of sugar, add ½ liter of milk and 3 tbsp. spoons of flour and place in a water bath until thickened. Then add 150-200 grams of softened butter, beat, add nuts or candied fruits. Grease the cakes with the resulting cream and place on top of each other.

Zebra cake with curd cream

This homemade dessert consists of two parts: chocolate dough and the most delicate homemade curd cream.

You will need:

• 250 grams of flour;
• 300 grams of sugar;
• a stick of butter;
• 250 grams of chocolate;
• 5-6 eggs;
• vanilla;
• salt;
• baking powder;
• 500-600 grams of cottage cheese;
• coconut flakes (2-3 packs).

Melt butter with chocolate. Beat 3-4 eggs with 200 grams of sugar and vanilla. Add baking powder and salt to the flour, mix with the butter-chocolate mixture.

Beat the cottage cheese with the remaining eggs and sugar, add coconut flakes. Place chocolate dough and curd cream in the mold one by one. Place the cake in the oven for an hour and a half at a temperature of 180 degrees. Bon appetit!

Cottage cheese blueberry cake

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Ingredients:

• cottage cheese – 500 g
• sour cream – 500 g
• sugar – 300-400 g
• fresh or frozen blueberries – 250 g
• gelatin – 2 tbsp.
• water for soaking gelatin
• cream – 200 ml
• biscuits - cookies

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Recipe:

1. Beat cottage cheese with sour cream and sugar until smooth.

2. Grind the blueberries in a blender.

3. Divide the curd mass into two parts, add blueberry puree to one of them.

4. Soak gelatin in a small amount of water. Heat the cream, add the swollen gelatin and stir until it is completely dissolved. Do not boil. Divide the mixture in half and add to both parts of the curd mass.

5. Line the bottom of the mold with cookies. Alternately pour a few spoons of each part of the curd mass strictly in the middle of each next layer. Let it harden overnight in the refrigerator.

Secrets of advanced housewives

Baking a biscuit is not difficult. But homemade cheesecake sometimes doesn’t work out. To avoid ruining your holiday, follow the recommendations.

1. Tip No. 1. Remove the cheese or cottage cheese for cheesecake from the refrigerator in advance: the filling should be at room temperature.
2. Tip No. 2. It is better to cut the cake into pieces while still warm, in the mold. Then you will definitely not damage the fragile structure of the cake.
3. Tip No. 3. If the curd cake is very tender and there is little dough in it, bake the dessert at a temperature of 160-175 degrees.

Curd cake in a frying pan

This recipe will tell you how to make a simple and delicious cake without baking in the oven. The cakes for this dessert just need to be fried in a frying pan.

Ingredients:

• 750 grams of flour
• 2 cups sour cream
• 300 grams of cottage cheese
• 500 grams of sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder or slaked soda
• 50 grams of butter

Cooking method:

Mix sour cream with butter and 1 glass of sugar. Add baking powder or slaked soda. Then add 500 grams of flour and mix thoroughly. Place the dough on the table and form into 5 different pieces. Roll each one thinly and place it on a heated frying pan, which, by the way, does not need to be greased with oil to prepare the dessert. Fry all the cakes in this way. Mix cottage cheese with sour cream, add 1 glass of sugar and beat thoroughly until a thick and fluffy mass is formed. Place the first cake on a dish, place a layer of the resulting mass on top, then a new “floor” and so on. Curd cake in a frying pan is not only easy to prepare, but also very economical.

Light curd cake

This dessert will delight you with its delicate taste, it can be prepared at home for adults and children, it is easy to bake even when guests are already ringing the doorbell, because creating a masterpiece will take a minimum of time.

Ingredients:

• 200 grams of cottage cheese
• 750 grams of flour
• 200 grams of butter
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder or baking soda, slaked with vinegar
• 100 grams of raisins

Cooking method:

The recipe for this cottage cheese cake is very easy - preparing the dessert is not a problem, especially since its mass does not require special processing. You just need to grind the sugar with the eggs, add flour, baking powder and margarine. It is necessary to cut off a quarter of the dough and set it aside, grate the main part and place it on a baking sheet greased with butter. Add mixed cottage cheese and raisins on top and rub the remaining piece of dough onto them. Bake for 40-50 minutes. Decorate the finished light curd cake with fruit. Also think about enriching the taste of the dessert with sour cream - the recipe will definitely not lose on this. Bon appetit!

Curd cake with strawberries

This recipe for cottage cheese cake is best implemented only at adult parties. The dessert filling contains liqueur, so it is not suitable for children.

Ingredients:

• 200 grams of flour
• 50 grams of sugar
• 1 yolk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
• 100 grams of butter
• 1 teaspoon lemon zest
• salt

Filling:

• 500 grams of cottage cheese
• 100 grams of sugar
• 2 cups strawberries
• 200 grams of cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
• 3 tablespoons of any fruit liqueur

Decoration:

• 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
• 1 cup strawberries
• 2 tablespoons berry jam

Cooking method:

Mix flour with sugar, add 1 yolk, softened butter, lemon zest, vanilla sugar and lightly salt. Roll out the resulting shortbread dough into 2 identical circles and place on the bottom of the mold, bake them one by one at a temperature of 180 degrees, cook for 15 minutes. To prepare the filling, you need to beat cottage cheese, raspberries, sugar, cream and liqueur using a blender or mixer. Place the filling on the prepared shortbread crust and carefully cover with the second crust. Decorate with jam or marmalade and berries and then sprinkle with powdered sugar. By the way, almost all ready-made strawberry cheesecakes should be served chilled. This recipe can also be supplemented with classic sour cream - it will also be delicious. Bon appetit!