Chocolate-Cottage Cheese Pastry with Cherries

Preparation Time: 45 minutes
Cooking Time: 50 minutes
Difficulty: 1
Spiciness: 0
Number of Servings: 10

Divinely delicious chocolate pastry with cottage cheese and embedded cherries, which can be substituted with cherries from compote.

In a bowl, sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and powdered sugar. Add salt, mix, and then sprinkle the mixture with diced butter. Quickly work the fat into the dry ingredients with your fingertips, lifting the mixture to make it airy and crumbly. Add the egg and quickly knead the ingredients into a dough.
Lightly grease a 23 cm square baking pan with butter, then line the bottom with parchment paper. Divide the dough into two parts. Roll out one half of the dough and place it in the prepared baking pan, wrap the other half in plastic wrap, and store it in the freezer for at least half an hour. Store the baking pan with the dough in the refrigerator.
Drain the cherries well in a colander. In a bowl, whisk the eggs with regular and vanilla sugar until frothy. Mix in the vanilla pudding powder, then add the cottage cheese. Gently fold the drained cherries into the mixture with a spatula.
Take the baking pan with the dough out of the refrigerator. Spread the cottage cheese cream with cherries over the dough. Take the other half of the dough from the freezer and grate it over the filling.
Bake the pastry in an oven preheated to 180 degrees Celsius for 40 to 50 minutes. Before cutting the pastry into pieces, let it cool completely and dust it with powdered sugar.