• Dough
    • 150 g Wheat Flour
    • 75 g Butter (Cold)
    • 1 Egg Yolk
    • Salt
    • 40 g Powdered Sugar
  • Cream Filling
    • 3 Eggs
    • 1 Egg White
    • 250 g Quark Cheese
    • 50 g Wheat Flour
    • 250 g Sour Cream
    • 0.5 Lemon (Juice)
    • 80 g Sugar
Quark Cheesecake

Quark Cheesecake

25. April 2023
Made with quark and sour cream, it has a fluffy texture. The crust is crispy and the filling has a hint of lemon.
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Ingredients
  • Dough
    • 150 g Wheat Flour
    • 75 g Butter (Cold)
    • 1 Egg Yolk
    • Salt
    • 40 g Powdered Sugar
  • Cream Filling
    • 3 Eggs
    • 1 Egg White
    • 250 g Quark Cheese
    • 50 g Wheat Flour
    • 250 g Sour Cream
    • 0.5 Lemon (Juice)
    • 80 g Sugar
Portions

Table of Contents


  1. Dough
  2. Rolling and Pulling
  3. Pre-bake
  4. Making the Cream
  5. Putting Everything Together
  6. Video

Dough

Put the flour, sliced butter, sugar, egg yolk and a pinch of salt in a mixing bowl.

Dough ingredients
Ingredients in bowl

Mix everything until you have a solid dough.

Dough mixing
Dough mixed

Use some manual labor to form the dough into a ball.

Forming the dough
Dough ball

Let the dough rest in the fridge for about 30 minutes.

Wrapped ball for fridge

Rolling and Pulling

Roll the dough until it is bigger than the cake tin and lay it in there.

Roll the dough
Bigger than tin
Laying the dough

Evenly pull the dough up the edge of the cake tin.

Evenly pulled dough

Pre-bake

Stab the dough on the bottom of the tin with a fork and put it into the oven at 180°C for about 10 minutes.

Let it cool down before filling it with the cream.

Stabbing the dough
Stabbing the dough

Making the Cream

In the meantime the cream can be prepared.

Separate the eggs, take the leftover egg white from the dough and make a stiff whipped cream out of the egg whites.

Egg whites in bowl
Egg whites in mixer
Egg whites mixing

Mix the egg yolks, quark cheese, sour cream, sugar, lemon juice and flour together.

Cream filling ingredients
Cream filling ingredients in bowl
Cream filling in mixer
Cream filling mixing

Followup by gently folding in the beaten egg whites.

Beaten egg whites in bowl
Folding in the egg whites
Finished filling

Putting Everything Together

Fill the cooled dough with the cream.

Filling the dough with the cream
Fully filled dough

Put it into a preheated oven at 200°C for about 15 minutes. Then reduce the temperature to 160°C and bake for another 30 minutes until your quark cheesecake is done.

Putting it into the oven
Baking
Cake done
Cake cooled
Cake sliced

Video

For a moving explanation please see the following video:

YouTube Video

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