Peat cake (turbakook)

Ingredients

• 300 g plain chocolate biscuits
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder, plus extra, to dust
• 220 g (1 cup) caster sugar, plus extra 2 tbsp
• 50 g unsalted butter, melted
• 800 g farm-style cottage cheese (see Note), crumbled
• 80 g (⅓ cup) sour cream
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp cornflour

Chilling time overnight.

 You will need a 20 cm springform cake pan for this recipe.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 160°C and grease a 20 cm springform cake pan. Place biscuits, cocoa and extra 2 tbsp sugar in a food processor and pulse to coarse crumbs. Add butter and pulse to combine. Scatter half the mixture over the base of pan and set aside.

Place cottage cheese and sour cream in a bowl and mix to combine. Using an electric mixer, beat 220 g (1 cup) sugar, vanilla and eggs together in a separate bowl until thick and pale. Fold through cottage cheese mixture and cornflour, then spread over base of pan. Scatter remaining crumb mixture over the top.

Bake for 1 hour or until set but with a gentle wobble in the centre. Turn off oven and allow cake to cool completely with the door ajar, then cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. Slice then dust with extra cocoa, to serve.

Note

• Farm-style cottage cheese has a drier texture than regular cottage cheese. It’s available at select supermarkets.

Photography by Chris Chen. Food preparation by Phoebe Wood. Styling by Justine Poole.

As seen in Feast magazine, August 2014, Issue 34.