Cottage cheese (paneer) cake
By: Poojita Krishna
Published: Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 3:05am

Ingredients




Paneer or cottage cheese – 2 cups (preferably fresh paneer, check my homemade paneer recipe)
Sugar – 1 cup (blended to a smooth powder)
Baking powder – ½ tsp
Beaten curd – 1 tbsp
Salt – ¼ tsp
Semolina or suji or upma rava – ¼ - ½ cup
Whole wheat flour or maida (all purpose flour) – 1 tbsp
Butter or oil – for greasing the baking tin
Fruit syrup or fruit sauce – strawberry or any fruit of your choice (for topping the cake)

Preparation

1 In a large bowl, crumble the paneer well. 2 Add the baking powder, salt, sugar, whole wheat flour and suji to the paneer. 3 Mix everything well and knead the mixture into smooth dough. It should not be like chapati dough, texture should be similar to gulab jamun or rasmalai dough. 4 Add or reduce the suji depending on how dense or crumbly you would like the cake. Less suji makes it crumbly, more will make it dense. I used ½ cup suji as I needed a dense one. 5 Grease a cake tin or baking tray with butter or oil. 6 Sprinkle some flour all inside the greased tin, also on the edges. 7 Place the dough in the cake tin and with a gentle hand press it so that it is even and well spread in the tin. 8 Beat the tin once to remove any gaps or air. 9 Bake this in a pre heated oven at 150°C for 30-40 minutes or until the edges of cake turn brown and a toothpick inserted comes out clean. 10 Remove from oven and place onto a wire rack to cool to room temperature. 11 Top it with the fruit syrup and serve warm.

About

an indulgent cottage cheese cake perfect for a romantic evening.