Quark Cheesecake with Fresh Cherry Pie Filling
Quark Cheesecake with Fresh Cherry Pie Filling ... my version of a Polish cheesecake with a fresh fruit topping that turned out quite delicious.
Ingredients
Biscuit base
- 200 gms graham crackers or digestive biscuits
- 50 gms dark chocolate grated {optional}
- 4 tbsps unsalted butter melted
Quark Cheesecake Filling
- 500 gm Quark {recipe for homemade quark in notes}
- 100 ml softly whipped cream/25% or melted butter
- 180 gm vanilla / granulated sugar
- 3 eggs
- 3 tbsps flour
- 1 vanilla bean scraped
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 quantity fresh cherry pie topping {recipe link below}
Instructions
Biscuit case
- In a bowl, mix the cookie crumbs, grated chocolate {if using} and melted butter till it clumps together. Turn into the base of a spring form tin, and smoothen out to make a base, working a little up halfway up the sides if you like too. Use the base of a glass tumbler to smoothen it out. Place if freezer for 10 minutes, while you prepare the filling.
Filling:
- Put the sugar, scraped vanilla bean and quark in a mixing bowl, and beat till smooth.
- Add the cream / butter, eggs, vanilla extract and flour and beat again for a minute.
- Turn into the chilled biscuit case, and bake at 150℃ for 1 1/2 hours, until set. {A knife inserted into the centre should come out clean}.
- Leave to cool in the oven, and then cover the cheesecake {left in the baking tin} with foil, and chill overnight.
- Take out of tin, place on serving platter, top with fresh cherry pie topping. Chill until served!