Happy Earth Hour – join millions of people across the world! Be sure to switch off all your lights from 8.30 – 9.30 (UTC-05:00) and set up some candles  😉 You can read more about earth hour HERE . We will be having a special dessert tonight 😉 It’ s also perfect dessert for Easter.

As promised in a previous blog entry, here is an awesome recipe with the pressed cottage cheese. This is by far the most popular cake in Estonia and I have had it a lot. I love it! I was pretty sad when I moved here (Toronto, Canada) and grocery stores did not sell it, I just recently found a place where to buy it. One of the happiest days of my life 🙂

Preheat oven to 400 F

Crust

100 g butter

3/4 cup flour

3 tbsp sugar

1 egg

Mix room temperature butter with sugar. Add an egg. Mix well. Add flour. When the batter is nice and smooth, transfer it into desired baking pan (I used 8×8 inch pan, 2 inch deep) and spread it.

I put a wax paper on the bottom of a baking pan, easier to just pull it out later. It is easier to spread it when you make the spoon little bit wet with cold water.

Topping

1/2 kg pressed cottage cheese

* I´m sure you can use also cream cheese or drained cottage cheese but I have never used it to make this cake. If you are curious about this cake I suggest you buy the right pressed cottage cheese. Check my last blog entry for the picture.

3 eggs

1/2 sugar

*If you love your cake extra sweet, make it a 1 cup

4  tbsp sour cream

3 tablespoons of flour

2 tsp vanilla extract

drop of lemon juice

If you love raisins, add a cup of raisins

*I’m not a fan so I didn’t

For the topping add the cottage cheese, sugar, eggs, sour cram, vanilla extract and lemon juice into a standard mixer bowl and mix until well combined. Add flour. Mix well. And raisins if you love them.

Pour the cottage cheese mixture on top of the crust!

Bake for 45-50 minutes or until top is set and browned. When cool, cut into squares.

You may add icing sugar on top to add a special effect to it!