German Cottage Cheese Cake Recipe
3 4 cup 2 tbsp 200g salted butter softened slightly 1 cup 225 g granulated sugar6 eggs1 cup 225 g all purpose flour4 cups quark a german cheese if you cannot find quark use whole.
German cottage cheese cake recipe. Ready to make german cheesecake. This recipe uses cottage cheese in place of quark and. She made this for us when we were growing up. My mother born in 1911 in pennsylvania got a cottage cheese pie recipe from her german grandmother.
Grease the bottom and halfway up the sides of a 9 inch springform pan. The cottage cheese mixture is so wet when it gets poured in that it soaks into the crust and keeps it together so really the butter is not needed. And it is good for breakfas too. Cheese cake german mix cottage cheese with cornstarch sugar salt and.
My mom searched for years for an authentic german cheesecake recipe but germans use quark an ingredient not readily available in the u s. Three layers make up this cake. Degrees than 30 minutes at 350 degrees. If you re looking for a crustless cheesecake check out my other german cheesecake recipe.
So for this german style cheesecake you can use store bought or homemade quark pureed cottage cheese or full fat greek yogurt. 1 2 x 11 cake pan. A yeast dough base quark cheese filling like a sweet cream cheese filling and a crunchy streusel topping. In a blender or food processor puree cottage cheese.
Pour mixture into unbaked. I made it even lower in fat by mixing corn syrup with the graham craker crumbs and pressing that into the lightly greased pie plate. It makes a large jelly roll pan sized cake. But don t get out the cream.
Mix together the sugar cornstarch and flour and set aside. Preheat an oven to 350 degrees f 175 degrees c. This cheesecake is light and creamy with a hint of lemon. I didn t think guilt free cheese cake existed.
1 carton creamed small curd cottage cheese. Her recipe is as follows. Another german käsekuchen recipe. Sprinkle the crumbs over the bottom and up the sides of a greased 10 in.
One bite and you ll swear you re in germany. This cheesecake recipe has a crust. Beat in lemon juice vanilla flour sour cream and pureed cottage cheese. I didn t drain any liquid off the cottage cheese greek yogurt mixture and the cheesecake still turned out well if maybe a bit softer than if i d used quark.
Or a combo of any of those three ingredients. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.