Brownies with Farmer's Cheese and Cherries

Brownies with curd cheese and cherries—a tender, moist, intensely chocolatey cake! Perfect for Shavuot or a dairy meal on any other occasion.

Break the chocolate into pieces. Melt it with the butter over a water bath or in the microwave.

Beat two eggs and 50 grams of sugar with a mixer, add the vanilla sugar and a pinch of salt, add the cooled melted chocolate, then the baking powder and flour

For the curd cheese filling: mix the curd cheese with the sugar and the remaining eggs (2). Beat with a mixer until creamy.

Pour 1/3 of the batter into a deep-sided baking pan greased with butter. Spread it evenly in the pan. Add half the curd cheese mixture and smooth it with a spatula.

Spread half the cherries over the curd cheese mixture. Then add another layer of batter, followed by the curd cheese mixture, cherries, and another layer of batter. Try to spread the batter evenly. You can make swirls in the top layer with a knife or a wooden skewer.

Bake for 40-50 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Check for doneness with a skewer—it should come out dry. Let cool in the pan.