Quark Cheesecake
I just bought a rather large container of Quark and was hoping to make cheesecake using it. Can anyone recommend a good recipe for quark cheesecake? I saw one in Food and Wine involving gingerbread but I wanted something more classic. Thanks.
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13 Comments:
@idkeats - I'm very interested in this topic.
I hope someone responds with a good recipe.
I love Quark in simple savoury applications but I never thought of using it as an alternative to dairy.
hungrychristel at 12:10PM on 06/10/09
Here you go! Kasekuchen
Crust:
1/3 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 1/4 cups flour
1/3 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
make a dough and spread on bottom and sides of a greased & floured springform pan. Prick with fork, Bake 15-20 minutes ay 350º
Filling:
2-lb Quark
4 eggs separated
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 3-oz pkg vanilla pudding & pie filling mix
1/4 cup melted butter
3 tablespoons lemon juice
Thoroughly mix everything but egg whites. Beat egg whites till very stiff and carefully fold them into cheese mixture.. Spoon the filling over the baked crust.
Bake 1 hour at 350º. Let cool in pan.
Guten Appetit !
goodcooker at 12:40PM on 06/10/09
DANKE SCHÖN goodcooker!
hungrychristel at 12:47PM on 06/10/09
@hungrychristel, quark is a dairy product.
dbcurrie at 1:06PM on 06/10/09
@dbcurrie
haha yeah *respectfully corrected and embarassed*
What I meant to imply was that I never thought of using it in a BAKING recipe as a substitute for dairy
haha my-bad!
hungrychristel at 1:12PM on 06/10/09
And here I thought a quark was a subatomic particle. Is it a kind of cream cheese or something?
Grumpy Old Man at 1:20PM on 06/10/09
hmmm.. I didn't know what it was either... here you go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(cheese)
TeriN at 1:28PM on 06/10/09
@grumpy - full of humour once again!
you should try it out if you havent!
I describe it as a curdy-sort-of-yogurt-cream-cheese-type.
I use it as a bread-spread with seasonings, and sometimes sandwich meat.
hungrychristel at 1:33PM on 06/10/09
Thanks for the info, folks. Out here in the deep woods we don't always know about European food items. We appreciate every effort made to relieve us of our ignorance. We really do.
I'll have a go at makin' a cheesecake outta of quark--once I find it.
Grumpy Old Man at 1:37PM on 06/10/09
Grumpy, that's is a bit of a problem. For me it's a weekend trip to Vt or having it shipped from MI or WI and the shipping cost more that the cheese!!
goodcooker at 1:57PM on 06/10/09
I'll give ya long odds that it is easier to getcher hands on than fantasy potion, goodcooker.
Grumpy Old Man at 2:50PM on 06/10/09
If you can find unpastreurized, unhomoginized milk (like at your local farm straight out of the cow) you can make your own Quark by curtling it with lemon juice (see Wikipedia reference above, I think it touches on this) I did it once, it was good but of course full fat unlike all the different grades you can buy in Deutschland and Österreich.
In Germany we eat most of our Quark on the wonderful bread with jam on top (there is also a school of jam underneath, but I think you taste the sweet more when it is on top).
This site has a recipe that is more complex (and auf Deutsch), and an ad for a Quark maker ($45)
http://www.germancorner.com/recipes/hints/quark1.html
brigittesm at 11:47AM on 06/11/09
@hungrycrystal, I figured you knew if you had used it before, but it's the kind of post where some person who's lactose intolerant might see the comment and go out and buy Quark and be unpleasantly (and somewhat expensively) surprised.
dbcurrie at 8:25PM on 06/11/09