If you are a lover of delicious pastries, then this recipe cannot be ignored. The most delicious cottage cheese cake with candied fruit and raisins will not leave indifferent any of the family members.
For the first time the word "cake" appeared in ancient Rome, but the first pastries were made from ground barley. Berries, nuts and even seeds were added to the product. Cupcake was considered a royal dessert, and ordinary people could not afford this delicacy. Today, muffins are common all over the world, and they do not take long to prepare.
In order to prepare a delicious treat for tea, you do not need to work hard. A delicious and aromatic cake will be ready in a couple of hours.
Cupcake Ingredients
To prepare a delicious dessert, it is not at all necessary to look for unknown ingredients and spend a lot of money on it. In order to make a curd cake with candied fruit and raisins, you will need:
- fatty cottage cheese, it is better if it is homemade (200 grams);
- 1 pack of butter;
- 200 grams of granulated sugar;
- 0.5 kg of wheat flour;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- salt to taste;
- 1, 5 teaspoons baking powder;
- raisins 50 g;
- candied fruits 50 g;
- vanillin;
- powdered sugar (for decoration).
It is worth noting that the recipe for a muffin in a bread maker will differ slightly from the standard recipes. However, it will help you save time with just a minimum of effort.
The main stages of making a curd cake
Let's consider step by step the process of making a curd cake.
1. First, take butter and gradually melt it either in the microwave or over low heat. It is extremely important that the oil does not have time to boil, this is a little trick of delicious baked goods.
2. The melted butter is cooled to a comfortable temperature of 40-50 degrees.
3. Pour the butter into the bread maker and simultaneously add the cottage cheese there. You do not need to put the entire portion of cottage cheese into the bread maker at once, as it will begin to clump.
4. Beat three eggs in a separate plate until fluffy. For these purposes, it is better to use a blender.
5. Gradually add the beaten eggs to the mixture of butter and cottage cheese.
6. Pre-sift the flour through a sieve.
7. Pour the flour into the bread maker. Vanillin, granulated sugar and salt are added in parallel.
special instructions
- The proportions for the test may vary. First of all, you need to build on the fat content of the cottage cheese.
- After all the ingredients are in the bread maker, you need to decide when to add raisins and candied fruits to the dough. It all depends on the model of the device. In newer models, there is a special dispenser, which itself adds ingredients to the dough as it is ready. If your model is simpler, you need to enable any mode that starts with kneading the dough.
- Usually in any bread maker there is a mode called "Cupcake". It starts by kneading the dough. After that, the product is baked for 2 hours. Cooking times may vary depending on the model.
8. Before adding raisins and candied fruits, it is necessary to rinse and dry them. After that, add a tablespoon of flour to the mixture of dried fruits and mix. This is to ensure that the ingredients are evenly distributed throughout the cake.
9. Turn on the "Cupcake" mode and bake. We check the readiness of the baking with a toothpick.
10. Carefully remove the curd cake from the bread machine and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
11. Curd cake with candied fruits and raisins is ready.
A light and tasty cake can be baked even without adding dried fruit using the classic recipe. In addition to powdered sugar, you can use original decorations, such as chocolate fondant or mastic. Such decoration will make your product not only unique, but also make the cupcake more attractive.
Nutritional value of the finished product, amendments to the recipe
- The calorie content of the finished product is 350 kcal per 100 grams. The protein content is 9, 14 grams, fat - 11, 72 grams, carbohydrates - 58 grams.
- This recipe can also be used to make a cupcake in the oven. Some housewives, instead of baking powder, add soda, which is quenched with vinegar.
- You can use margarine instead of butter, but the proportions will be slightly different.
