Russian Easter Dessert (Cyrnaya Pascha) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 lbs pressed cottage cheese (no salt)
3 lbs cream cheese
10 egg yolks
1/2 lb unsalted butter
1 pint whipping cream
3 1/2 cups fine sugar
5 (9 g) packages vanilla sugar, we use oetker original vanilla sugar

Preparation

Mix yolks and whip cream over double boiler until it coats the spoon. Stir in vanilla sugar.
Press cottage cheese, cream cheese, and butter through a ricer or sieve.
In batches, place cheese mixture in mixing bowl and slowly add yolks until smooth. Add fine sugar and blend into mixture.
Combine bowls and mix.
Place in small containers, loosely cover in plastic, then a cheese cloth and a weight. For the weight, we use a plastic margarine container filled with water.