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Cottage Cheese Chocolate Cake
Chocolate cakes are so versatile as it is the cottage cheese. This cake blends the two together with a thick dark chocolate layer on top. Deliciously cool!
Ingredients
Base
- 3 medium Eggs separated
- ½ cup Flour
- 1 tablespoon Cocoa powder unsweetened
- ½ tablespoon Baking powder follow instruction on packaging
- 2 tablespoons Honey or sweetener of choice
Filling
- Gelatin as much as indicated on its instruction for ¼cup / 50ml water
- 1 medium Lemon zest
- 14 oz Cottage cheese
- ¾ cup Whipping cream
- 2 tablespoon Honey or sweetener of choice
- 2 tablespoon Vanilla extract
Coating
- 4 oz Chocolate
- 2 tablespoons Butter
Kitchen utensils
- Ø6.5" / Ø16.5cm Baking form
Instructions
Base
- Mix flour, cocoa powder, baking powder.
- Beat the eggs and honey or sweetener of choice until foamy and light yellow.
- Mix dry ingredients into the egg until ingredients are evenly combined.
- Line a round baking tray with parchment paper or cover it with some butter and flour.
- Spread the batter evenly into the prepared spring form.
- Put it into the 350°F / 180°C preheated oven for about 25 minutes. Take it out when baked and place it in a cooling rack to cool down.
- Cut the top of the cake to get a flat surface so it won’t cause any difficulty to spread the cottage cheese on top. Waste no crumbs, check out: Leftover cake recipe
Filling
- Dissolve gelatin in ¼cup / 50ml hot water (122°F / 50°C). Keep stirring it until completely dissolved. Don't let it set but cool it down to room temperature. It sets at 15°C/60°F
- Mix cottage cheese, honey, vanilla extract and lemon zest evenly. Mix in the cooled gelatin too.
- Whip the cream until hard peaks form.
- Fold the whipped cream into the cottage cheese.
- Place the cake base back into the cake tin and spread the cottage cheese on top.
- Put the cake in the fridge for 3-4 hours before taking it out of the tin.
Coating
- Melt chocolate with the butter.
- Pour the chocolate on top of the cake.
- Spread it evenly.
- Put it back to the fridge for another hour before cutting it up.
Nutrition
Serving: 100g | Calories: 224kcal (11%) | Carbohydrates: 18g (6%) | Protein: 8g (16%) | Fat: 14g (22%) | Saturated Fat: 9g (56%) | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0g | Cholesterol: 72mg (24%) | Sodium: 238mg (10%) | Potassium: 192mg (5%) | Fiber: 2g (9%) | Sugar: 8g (9%) | Vitamin A: 377IU (8%) | Vitamin C: 1mg (1%) | Calcium: 97mg (10%) | Iron: 2mg (12%)
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