Easter Cake with Cottage Cheese

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==Description==
In Romanian: Pasca cu brinza de vaca
==Ingredients==
=== Sweet bread dough or Russian Sweet Bread ===
* 2 lbs / 1 kg flour
* 10 oz / 300 g sugar
* 1½ cups milk
* 6 eggs
* 2 oz / 50 g yeast
* 7 oz / 200 g butter
* 2 tablespoons oil
* vanilla stick
* salt
=== Filling ===
* 1 lb / 500 g cottage cheese
* 4 oz / 100 g raisins
* 3 - 4 eggs
* 1 tablespoon butter
* sugar to taste
* a little grated lemon peel 
* salt
==Directions==
=== Sweet bread dough ===
# Make a starter from yeast and a teaspoon of sugar. 
# Mix until the consistency of sour cream, add 2 – 3 tablespoons tepid milk, a little flour and mix well; sprinkle some flour on top, cover and let sit in a warm place to rise. 
# Boil the milk with the vanilla stick (cut in very small pieces) and leave it on the side of the range, covered, to keep warm. 
# Mix the yolks with the sugar and salt, then slowly pour the tepid milk, stirring continuously. 
# Place the risen starter in a large bowl and pour, stirring continuously, the yolk-milk mixture and some flour, a little at a time. 
# Then add 3 whipped egg whites. When you finish this step, start kneading. 
# Knead, adding melted butter combined with oil, a little at a time, until the dough starts to easily come off your palms. 
# Cover with a cloth and then something thicker (like a blanket). 
# Leave in a warm place to triple in bulk. 
# If during kneading the dough seems too hard, you may add a little milk. 
# If, on the contrary, the dough seems too soft, you may add a little flour. 
# When the dough has risen well, take a piece of it, place on the floured work surface, give it the desired shape (round, oval, braided, etc.) and place in the baking pan previously greased with butter. 
# Let rise some more in the pan in a warm place.
=== Assembly ===
# Mix the filling ingredients for filling to obtain a homogeneous paste. 
# Roll a pencil thick sheet out of the sweet bread dough (or Russian Sweet Bread). Place in a baking pan. 
# From another piece of dough form a long, finger thick roll and arrange it around the sheet, sticking to the walls of the pan. 
# Place the filling within, without covering the roll on the edges. 
# Make two more such dough rolls and place them over the filling in an X shape. 
# After the cake has risen a bit in a warm place, use a little egg wash over the dough rolls. 
# Set in the oven to bake. Remove from the pan when it is cold.
Category:Cake Recipes
Category:Easter Recipes