Raspberry Quark Cake
Quark makes a very light cake and goes perfectly with any fruit or berries. This cake has a baked crust, and a non baked filling. Alternatively, you can use a ready bake or frozen pie crust. If you don’t have any quark you can use Greek yogurt, a Bulgarian style yogurt, or Skyr. To learn how to make quark at home yourself click here.
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Raspberry Quark Cake
Crust Ingredients:
- 1 ¼ cup of all purpose flour
- ¼ tsp of salt
- Lemon peel of half a lemon
- 1/2 a cup of butter or margarine cut into chunks
- 1/2 a cup of sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp of cream
Procedure for Homemade Crust:
- Combine flour, salt, sugar, lemon peel, and butter chunks. Mix with your hands while rubbing the butter pieces into the flour.
- Beat the egg into the cream.
- Mix the egg/ cream mixture into the dough. Briefly mix with your hands.
- Refrigerate for half an hour.
- Grease your pie dish.
- Place the dough between plastic or food wrap. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough to the size of a 10 inch circle (9 inches plus 1 inch rim). Using your pie dish, place the dough inside while creating your 1 inch crust rim.
- Using a fork, poke holes into the bottom.
- Bake for 20 minutes at 220 C/ 430 F.
Homemade crust inside pie dish.
Ready bake pie crust
Ingredients for the filling:
- 1 1/2 cups (400 g/ 14 oz) of quark or thick yogurt.
- 2 egg yolks.
- 2 egg-whites, beaten until stiff peaks form.
- ¾ cup of icing sugar.
- 2 1/2 cups of raspberries, preferably fresh, but frozen works as well.
- Juice of one lemon.
- 2 1/2 tsp of gelatin (usually one pouch of gelatin), and follow instructions to dissolve.
- ¾ cup of whipping cream, beaten until stiff peaks form.
Procedure to make the filling:
- Mix quark, egg yolk, and icing sugar.
- Using a food blender, puree the raspberries with the lemon juice.
- Mix raspberry puree with the quark mix.
- Prepare gelatin according to the instructions and mix into the raspberry puree/ quark mix.
- Refrigerate for 45 minutes.
- Using a spatula, mix the whipped cream and the whipped egg-white into the quark mix.
- Pour the mix into the cooled pie shell.
- Refrigerate the cake for 3 hours or until firm.
- Decorate with berries and serve chilled.
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