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Vanilla cake with Romanian cheese
This delicious and flaky vanilla cake with Romanian cheese is a traditional Romanian delicacy. You can also use ricotta or any other fresh cheese.
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Recipe vanilla cake with romanian cheese
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12 persons
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Made by Véronique
Published at 2017-01-07, this recipe is for 12 persons and takes 50 minutes.
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Preparation time
10 minutes
Time cooking
40 minutes
Total time
50 minutes
Preparation - 10 minutes
Make sure the puff pastry sheets or defrosted and if you use small square sheets, you can create one big sheet by sticking them together with a bit of water.
Make a rectangle with 2 squares high and 4 squares wide. Crumble the cheese if needed and combine with 3 eggs, sugar, vanilla sugar and extract until it's a smooth mixture.
Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees celsius or 350 degrees fahrenheit and line the spring form's bottom with parchment paper.
Finishing up the vanilla cake with Romanian cheese - 40 minutes
Divide the cheese mixture over the puff pastry sheet, it should be a thin layer. Fold the bottom gently upward to the center and then also fold the top to the middle.
Let the pastry overlap slightly so the roll will be closed. The ends will still be open at this point.
Transfer the package onto the prepared round parchment paper and place the pastry in a circle so the ends will touch each other, leaving a hole in the middle.
Close the package by sticking the ends together with a bit of water. Use a fork to poke holes in the top of the puff pastry.
Folded beat the 4th egg and coat the top of the pastry with the egg. Finish with a layer of sugar and bake in the oven for about half an hour, or until beautiful golden brown. Enjoy!
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4 comments on "Vanilla cake with Romanian cheese"
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Ioana
says on 2017-08-02
Hi, just a quick comment that the Romanian cheese in this recipe is called "urda", not "branza burduf" :-) Branza burduf is salty, smelly and is always used in savoury recipes.
"Urda" however, mixed with sugar and vanilla or grated lemon rind can be used as filling in pies, crepes etc. It has similar tasted with ricotta but more "concentrated" and is thicker.
I will try this recipe :-)
Ohmydish
says on 2017-08-02
Hi Ioana, I will check with my sister-in-law about the cheese name. She's Romanian and she brought it from Romania for us and that's the name she told us :)
A_boleyn
says on 2017-01-10
I've attempted to make my own strudel dough for placinta cu branza ... to ok results. My mom's was amazing. I think this would be great with apples and cinnamon.
Ohmydish
says on 2017-01-10
Apples and cinnamon are always great! I can ask for the recipe for the dough. Or well, my sister-in-law can ask for the recipe. Because I can't speak Romanian haha! :)
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