Fruit & Sweet Cheese Cake

• I tried this recipe from one of my recently bought Polish magazines.
• I have not make a cake dough with twaróg/yoghurt cheese before.
• I would only make a small alteration to the amounts in the ingredients next time – a little more sugar with the topping of twaróg/yoghurt cheese which is how I have written this up.
• It was huge success.

INGREDIENTS

• 250g plain flour
• 100g granulated sugar
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon of salt
• 120g – melted butter – allowed to cool.
• 3 eggs
• 125g + 125g twaróg/yoghurt cheese (very well strainned)
• 1½ – 2 tablespoons of icing sugar
• 300g of fruit – around 150g of apples – the rest blackberries/raspberries or fruits of the forest (can be frozen – defrosted and dried with kitchen roll).
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• Sieved icing sugar to serve.

METHOD

• Grease and line on 3 sides  a 20 x 26cm baking tin.
• Pre-heat the oven to GM3 – 160ºC.
• Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl.
• In another bowl mix lightly whisk together the eggs and 125g of the twaróg/yoghurt cheese
• Mix the contents of the 2 bowls together.
• Add the cooled, melted butter and mix to get a soft dough.
• Press the dough into the tin.
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• In a bowl mix the other 125g of the twaróg/yoghurt cheese with the icing sugar.
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• Peel and core the apples
• Slice them into very thin slices.
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• Spread the sweetened twaróg/yoghurt cheese over the dough nearly up to the edges.
• Sprinkle the apple slices over this.
• Then sprinkle on the black fruit (I used fresh blackberries).
• (I should have used more – did not have enough).
• Bake for 55 to 65 minutes .
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• Sprinkle with icing sugar to serve.
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