Russian dessert traditionally served at Easter. It consists of a combination of sweetened pot cheese (or cottage cheese), nuts (usually almonds) and candied or dried fruit. Paskha is the traditional accompaniment for the sweet yeast bread kulich. It’s a creamy set pudding with a similar consistency to cheesecake, made from curd, cream or cottage cheese, eggs, sugar and dried
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fruit and flavoured with vanilla. The sides of the cake are sometimes decorated with almonds, cherries or angelica and the mixture is moulded into a four-sided pyramid and decorated with fruits and nuts with a shape of a cross on top.
