Sweet-cheese Easter Dessert Pascha

Anna

2 years ago

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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
Sweet-cheese Easter Dessert Pascha

Sweet-cheese Easter Dessert Pascha

Yields: 6–10 Servings
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: Cool time: overnight

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 continue 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.

Hope you try it soon, and if you do, please share your results in my Facebook group: Polish Your Kitchen – Made by You – link here.