Lemon curd cake

Fragrant, moist, with a bright yellow cut and a delicious crust - it's all about him, about a cake made from cottage cheese, lemon juice and zest. This pastry always turns out perfectly, although it consists of fairly simple and affordable ingredients.

Ingredients

• Cottage cheese 9 % - 200 g
• Butter (softened) - 150 g
• Eggs - 3 pcs.
• Sugar - 200 g
• Flour - 300 g (2 incomplete glasses with a capacity of 250 ml)
• Baking powder - 1 teaspoon
• Soda - 1/3 teaspoon
• Lemon (juice and zest) - 1 pc.
• For decoration:
• Powdered sugar - to taste
• Lemon zest (large chips) - to taste

Directions

1. Prepare all ingredients.
2. Flour can be sifted immediately and mixed with soda and baking powder.
3. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance so that it becomes soft (you can replace the butter with margarine).
4. If the cottage cheese is dry and lumpy, it is better to first rub it through a sieve or punch it with a blender.
5. Turn on the oven to preheat to 180 degrees.
6. Combine soft butter with sugar. Stir with a whisk.
7. Add cottage cheese to the dough. Stir with a whisk.
8. Enter one egg at a time: mix each added egg into the dough with a whisk and only then add the next.
9. Wash the lemon thoroughly and pat dry with paper towels.
10. Using a fine grater, remove the top layer of the peel - the yellow-orange zest.
11. Squeeze juice from the pulp (I got 50-60 ml).
12. Add lemon juice and zest to dough. Stir.
13. Add flour with soda and baking powder. Stir until smooth.
14. The dough turned out to be quite thick, a heavy lump falls from the shoulder blade.
15. Line a cake pan with parchment paper. Lay out the dough. Level the surface.
16. Send the form to the preheated oven.
17. Lemon cake with cottage cheese bake for 1 hour at a temperature of 180 degrees. Check readiness with a dry match: pierce the cake with it, if the match remains dry, then the cake can be removed from the oven.
18. Remove the cake from the mold and cool on a cloth towel or wooden surface.
19. You can decorate cooled pastries with powdered sugar, lemon icing or cream. I sprinkled with icing sugar and laid out coarsely grated strips of fresh lemon zest on top. Appetizing, simple and beautiful.
20. Curd-lemon cupcake will be appreciated by everyone who tries it. Bon appetit!