Easter Cheese Mold: Pashka

Name: Easter Cheese Mold: Pashka
Prep time: 12 h 20 min
Cook time: 12 h 20 min
Total time: 12 h 20 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 227 grams cream cheese, at room temperature, cut into pieces; 907 grams homemade cottage cheese or farmers cheese; 8 servings Chopped candied fruits, for decoration; 118 milliliters golden raisins; 177 milliliters ground almonds; 6 larges hard-cooked egg yolks, crumbled; 1 teaspoon lemon extract; 1 lemon, zest grated; 355 milliliters sugar; 1 large vanilla bean, split lengthwise; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract; 355 milliliters heavy or whipping cream

Easter Cheese Mold: Pashkan is A mixture of whipping cream, farmer's cheese, ground almonds, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. To use up the sugar you could follow this main course with the Whole Wheat Refined Sugar Free Sugar Cookies as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 12 hours and 20 minutes. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Easter.

Instructions

In a large bowl, combine the cottage cheese or farmer's cheese, sugar, cream cheese, and egg yolks, stirring to mix.

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Farmer Cheese

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Egg Yolk

Sugar

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Bowl

In batches, process the mixture in a food processor, adding an equal amount of cream to each batch, until completely smooth.

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Cream

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Food Processor

Transfer back to the bowl.

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Bowl

Stir in the ground almonds, lemon zest, lemon extract, and vanilla extract. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean and add them to the cheese mixture along with the raisins.

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Vanilla Extract

Almond Meal

Lemon Extract

Vanilla Bean

Lemon Zest

Raisins

Cheese

Seeds

Mix thoroughly.

Line a clean, unused 8-cup flower pot with a double layer of rinsed and squeezed-dry cheesecloth. Spoon the cheese mixture into the lined pan, then fold the ends of the cheesecloth neatly over the top.

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Cheese

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Cheesecloth

Frying Pan

Pot

Place a saucer on the cheesecloth, then a 2-pound weight, such as a can, on the saucer.

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Cheesecloth

Put the flower pot in a bowl large enough for the liquid to drain into. Refrigerate for at least 12 hours.

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Bowl

Pot

Empty the bowl. Unmold the pashka onto a serving plate and carefully remove the cheesecloth. Decorate with candied fruit, pressing some of the fruit into the pashka to form the letters XP, which stands for Khristos voskres ("Christ has risen").

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Candied Fruit