Easter Cake with Cottage Cheese

Description
In Romanian: Pasca cu brinza de vaca

Ingredients

 * Sweet bread dough (regular or Russian)

Filling

 * 1 lb / 500 g cottage cheese
 * 4 oz / 100 g raisins
 * 3 – 4 eggs
 * 1 tablespoon butter
 * sugar to taste
 * a little grated lemon peel
 * salt

Directions

 * 1) Mix the ingredients for filling to obtain a homogeneous paste.
 * 2) Roll a pencil thick sheet out of the sweet bread dough. Place in a baking pan.
 * 3) From another piece of dough form a long, finger thick roll and arrange it around the sheet, sticking to the walls of the pan.
 * 4) Place the filling within, without covering the roll on the edges.
 * 5) Make two more such dough rolls and place them over the filling in an X shape.
 * 6) After the cake has risen a bit in a warm place, use a little egg wash over the dough rolls.
 * 7) Set in the oven to bake. Remove from the pan when it is cold.