Chocolate custard Easter: a recipe tested over the years

It's time to get ready for Easter. And today we have a recipe for you that has been tested over the years.

Chocolate custard Easter cake

Ingredients:

– cottage cheese 5% - 500 g.

– eggs - 3 pcs.

– cane sugar - 20 g

– cream 15% - 100 ml

– milk 2.5% - 100 ml

– ground nuts - to your taste

– cocoa powder - 2-2.5 tbsp

– orange zest - 4 tbsp

– vanilla - to taste

Method of preparation:

– All ingredients should be at room temperature. Line the Easter cake pan with cheesecloth in advance. Grind the cottage cheese.

– Beat eggs with sugar (not too much), add vanilla, cream, and milk, and mix.

– Cook the mixture over low heat for 5-7 minutes until thickened, stirring constantly. Do not bring to a boil!

– Remove from heat, add half the cocoa powder and stir.

– Mix the cottage cheese with the egg-cream mixture until smooth, add the orange zest, the remaining half of the cocoa powder, and the nuts.

– Put the resulting mass into a cake pan, put it under a load, and put it in the refrigerator for 12 hours.

– Decorate the finished Easter cake as desired.