On Tue 15 Jan 2008 10:03:16p, Arri London told us...

> This is one of the cheesecake recipes that we usually use. It has a
> crust that runs up the sides as well as the bottom of the cake.Can of
> course be made in a springform!
>
> Kaesekremtorte
> from 'Backen Macht Freude' a Dr Oetker book
> [My translation/paraphrase Any weirdness thereby is my fault LOL]
>
> Dough:
>
> 150 g white flour
> 1 tsp baking powder
> 65 g sugar
> 2 egg yolks
> 65 g butter or margarine chilled, cut into cubes
> 1 tbs white flour for part of the dough
>
> Mix flour and baking powder and sieve into a bowl. Make a well in the
> centre and add the sugar and eggs yolks. Mix to a thick paste. Coat the
> cubes of fat in flour and knead into the other ingredients to a smooth
> dough. Roll about 2/3 of the dough to fit the base of a springform (26
> cm). Add the remaining flour to the other 1/3 of the dough, form into a
> roll and lay it over the base in a circle. Press it around the form to
> about 3 cm height. Dock the base with a fork and bake 20-25 minutes at
> 175--200 C/350--400 F
>
> Filling:
>
> 2 packs Dr Oetker Vanilla pudding powder (these are about 1.5 oz/pk;
> cornstarch-base pudding. Probably the same amount of vanilla pudding mix
> would work if you can't get the German ones)
>
> 1/2 litre milk (or mix of 1/4 litre milk and 1/4 litre quark whey from
> draining the quark below)
>
> 200 g sugar
> 1/2 bottle Dr Oetker lemon extract (about 2 ml)
> 750 g drained quark, sieved
> 30 g soaked raisins or currants (optional)
> 3 eggwhites beaten to a stiff snow
>
> For the glaze:
> 1 egg yolk plus 1 tbs milk beaten together
>
> Mix the pudding powder and 2/3 of the sugar with 1/4 litre of the milk.
> Bring the rest of the milk to a boil, remove from the heat and whisk in
> the pudding powder-milk mix. Return it to the heat and bring to a boil
> again with stirring.
> Remove from the heat, add the extract and the sieved quark and bring to
> the boil again with stirring.
> Place the pudding/quark mix in a bowl, add the raisins if used, the rest
> of the sugar and the beaten egg whites.
> Turn the mixture into the prebaked crust and smooth the top. Brush the
> top of the cake with the egg/milk mixture.
>
> Bake at 140 C/280 F for 50--60 minutes
>
> Any cheesecake mix would work with this crust; we do that too since real
> quark is hard to come by around here.
>

Thanks, Arri, this is one I want to try. I can get the Dr. Oetker
products. Finding quark will be the challenge. Is there a substitute
cheese I could use?

--
Wayne Boatwright

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