Chocolate-Curd Pie «Pillows»

First, start preparing the brown dough. In a deep bowl, pour in the sugar and add 4 eggs to it.

Using a mixer or a fork, thoroughly beat the eggs with the sugar. The main thing is to make the mixture homogeneous; there's no need to whip the eggs to a froth.

In the bowl with the homogeneous egg mixture, pour in the olive oil and milk. Do not use sunflower oil, as the dessert will have a slightly unpleasant smell in this case.

Beat the liquid ingredients with a mixer again, and then add 1.5 cups of flour, dark cocoa, and baking powder to them.

Using a spoon, carefully mix the dry ingredients with the mixture. As a result, a quite thick brown dough should form in the bowl.

Set aside the prepared chocolate dough, and now start preparing the cottage cheese filling. Transfer the cottage cheese mass to a clean deep bowl, beat in the remaining eggs, and add a cup of flour.

Mix all the ingredients thoroughly. You should do this with clean hands so that the flour combines evenly with the cottage cheese. By the way, if you use regular cottage cheese instead of cottage cheese mass, it should be whipped in a blender or passed through a sieve, otherwise, there will be a graininess in the pie.

Next, proceed with assembling the pie. Line the bottom of a glass dish with parchment and grease it with butter. By the way, the amount of ingredients is calculated for a dish whose width is 20 cm, and length is 30 cm. Then, lay the cottage cheese layer in the dish. Leave some cottage cheese mass (about 200 g) for decorating the baked goods. Distribute the cottage cheese filling evenly with clean hands over the entire dish.

On top of the tender cottage cheese layer, spread the chocolate dough. Carefully distribute it with a spoon so that the dough completely covers the cottage cheese.

From the remaining cottage cheese, with clean hands, form 2 «sausages» 30 cm long and 3 «sausages» 20 cm long. Place them on the chocolate dough in a grid pattern.

Place the filled form with dough and cottage cheese in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. This chocolate-cottage cheese pie bakes for about 40-50 minutes. By the way, the chocolate dough should rise slightly in the oven, while the cottage cheese should just brown. Because of this, the pie will have chocolate «pillows» on it.

Remove the browned pie from the oven and wait for it to cool. Cut the baked goods into small slices with a sharp knife. The cuts should be made along the cottage cheese grid. In this case, the pieces of pie will resemble «pillows».

The pie made according to such a simple recipe turns out moderately sweet and very tender. Moreover, it looks original when cut. That’s why such baked goods will become a true culinary masterpiece on your sweet table. Bon appetite!