Russian Easter Dessert (cyrnaya Pascha)

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 2 lbs pressed cottage cheese (no salt)
• 3 lbs cream cheese
• 10 egg yolks
• 1/2 lb unsalted butter
• 1 pint whipping cream
• 3 1/2 cups fine sugar
• 5 (9 g) packages vanilla sugar, we use oetker original vanilla sugar

Recipe

• 1 mix yolks and whip cream over double boiler until it coats the spoon. stir in vanilla sugar.
• 2 press cottage cheese, cream cheese, and butter through a ricer or sieve.
• 3 in batches, place cheese mixture in mixing bowl and slowly add yolks until smooth. add fine sugar and blend into mixture.
• 4 combine bowls and mix.
• 5 place in small containers, loosely cover in plastic, then a cheese cloth and a weight. for the weight, we use a plastic margarine container filled with water.