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Raspberry Surprise Cake

High protein moist Rasberry cake

Course Cake
Keyword cake, family, traybake
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings 8

Ingredients

  • 300 g fresh rasberries You could use frozen
  • 3 tablespoon cornstarch or cornflour 28g
  • 230 g butter softened
  • 200 g caster sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • zest from 2 lemons
  • 4 large eggs
  • 300 g cottage cheese 1 carton
  • 315 g self raiaing flour
  • 2 teaspoon baking powder 8g
  • 1 Juice Lemon
  • powdered sugar for dusting

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees c Line a 9" springform pan ot cake tin with a push up bottom with parchment paper and grease the sides of the pan.

  2. Place the reasberries in a large mixing bowl and dust with corn flour until they are well coated and set aside.

  3. In your mixer cream together the butter, sugar, vanilla and lemon zest until light and fluffy which takes about 3 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, and mix well after each addition.

  4. Add the cottage cheese to the creamed ingredients and mix again until batter is most creamy.

  5. In a separate bowl, combine the flour and baking powder. Remove the creamed mixture bowl from the stand mixer and sift the dry ingredients into the batter, then fold with a spatula just until combined.

  6. Gently stir in the lemon juice and fold in your rasberriue.

  7. Transfer the batter into the prepared pan and spread the batter evenly to the edges.

  8. Bake the cake in the preheated oven for 1 hour and 10 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.

  9. Remove the cake from the oven and cool for 10 minutes in the cake tin. Remove cake from the springform pan and peel off the parchment paper. Finish cooling on a rack. Dust about 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar over the top of the cake after cooled. Serve it warm or cool.

Recipe Notes

You can push the cottage cheese through a sieve with the back of a spoon of you don't like the curd texture, however, I don't think you notice it if you mix it well when you add it to the mixer.

You can substitute the raspberry with any soft fruit. Just remember to coat them in corn flour so they don't sink.

If using frozen fruits (and not defrosting them first,  you may need to adjust the cooking time (add another ten minutes).

This cake can be made ahead and will keep well in an airtight tin for 7 days.