(Cottage) Cheese Cake

Preheat oven to 400°F/204°C. Line a 9” cake pan (springform or regular cake pan) with parchment paper.

Melt butter or brown it. Both options work fine.

Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl.

Whisk eggs, cottage cheese, sugar, and honey together until smooth. If using cottage cheese, it may look a little separated with little cheese curds floating around.

Begin to whisk the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and just before it looks totally combined, add in the melted or browned butter and whisk until it is totally combined.

Fold in most of the fruit (approximately ¾ of it).

Pour the batter into your prepared cake pan and scatter the remaining fruit on top. Sprinkle sugar over everything.

Bake until the cake is deeply browned on top, shiny, and no longer jiggly in the center, 40–45 minutes.

Let cool completely before slicing.