Among the most popular cakes in Poland, we will certainly find cheesecakes, poppy seed cakes and cider cakes. Apart from cakes, cookies are also popular – we know many simple recipes for Polish desserts, eaten by children and adults for hundreds of years.
Makowiec is a cake that Poles usually prepare for Christmas. Cheesecake in various variants, e.g. “cold” or baked, appears on Polish tables throughout the year. Pączki, drożdżowiec, karpatka and pierniki toruńskie are also popular.
Cold cheesecake is a dessert that is prepared from cheese mass, placed on a previously prepared base and covered with jelly, usually with fruit. It is a no-bake cake that is served cold.
CHEESECAKE
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 kg of ground cottage cheese
- 250 g of soft butter
- 1 and 1/3 cups powdered sugar
- 6 eggs
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar
- 150 ml cream 36%
- 4 tablespoons of potato flour
PREPARATION:
Beat the soft butter until fluffy, gradually add the yolks one at a time, alternating with a tablespoon of powdered sugar, beating the ingredients thoroughly all the time. Reduce mixer speed to medium, add ground cheese and combine. Now add in turn: vanilla sugar, cream and potato flour, all the while mixing the ingredients into a homogeneous mass. Finally, mix (gently but thoroughly) with the stiffly beaten egg whites. Prepare a cake tin with a minimum diameter of 26 cm (measured from the center). Grease it with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs or ground almonds, or line the bottom with baking paper. Put the cheese mass into a springform pan and put it in the oven preheated to 170 degrees C. Bake for 60 minutes. Cool the cheesecake gradually by removing it from the oven (first by opening the door a little and slightly pulling the cheesecake out, finally remove it from the oven). Sprinkle the top of the cheesecake with powdered sugar or pour over the chocolate glaze.