Moving the Clunns

Basic German Cheesecake

Unfortunately I have no way of converting the measurements into cups right now, since cups go by volume, not weight.

Crust:

200 g Flour
100 g Sugar
100 g Butter or Margarine, softened
1 Tablespoon Vanilla sugar or a teaspoon of Vanilla flavour
1 teaspoon baking powder (not baking soda!)
1 egg

Mix dry ingredients, add butter and egg, knead until homogenic and not too sticky. If very sticky add some flour.

Press into greased springform, reserve about 1/3 of dough for the side.

Cheese mixture:

1 kg Quark (the nearly fat free variety, not cream quark or anything like that)
150 g Sugar
1 Tablespoon Vanilla sugar
A bit of lemon juice
Vanilla custard powder, the cooking kind, enough for about a litre of milk
250 ml whole milk
4 eggs, divided

Optional:

A handful of raisins OR
grated coconut to taste OR
your favourite fruit e.g. cherries, raspberries, apricots, pears, etc.

Beat egg whites until very stiff. Add 50 g of the sugar, beat some more then set aside. Combine quark, sugar, vanilla sugar or flavour, lemon juice, egg yolks and milk. Mix well. Add the custad powder and mix again. Fold in the beaten egg whites. Add optional ingredients if any :)

Pour cheese mixture into crust, bake at 160 degrees celsius/320 degrees Fahrenheit (fan oven/convection oven) might be about 170-180 C/340-355 F when using a conventional electric oven. Keep checking the cake - it should be a nice golden colour and can burn easily when the oven is too hot. Bake for 60-70 minutes.

After baking, immediately run a knife around the side of the springform to seperate the cake from the cake mould, the surface will tear less. Let cool (warm cheesecake is yucky) completely, you might even want to refridgerate the cake for a while when cool.

Enjoy!

Snagged from ilkee  - Happy New Year, everyone!


After my secret-evil-identity result with the rainbow meme, this could be a bit confusing.

So I am the approachable, likable person people might be afraid of ... never thought the two faces of my Gemini personality would be exposed in such a way.

By the way, I also tried Peanut Butter Cups, but since they are rarely available and utterly expensive here I selected my other favourite.

Being called greedy didn't go down too well either, I guess. So, there.