Quick and easy cheesecake recipe

[wiseheart]

Because gevr asked for it and her wish is my command. ;)

Ingredients:

60 g butter
75 g sugar
1 teaspoon of butter-vanilla baking oil (or vanilla extract)
2 eggs
500 g Quark (oder 250 g Quark + 150 gr Creme fraiche)
25 g semolina or powdered digestive biscuits (I use the latter)
1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 package of vanilla pudding powder
250 g fruits of your choice

How to make it:

Cream butter, sugar and eggs. Add a teaspoon of vanilla extract)

Mix semolina, baking powder and pudding powder. Stir it under the egg-butter-sugar mass, together with the quark.

Add fruits of your choice.

Pour the mixture into a small, buttered baking tin (18 or 22 cm) and bake ca. 70-75 minutes at 170°C. And that is basically it. Baking time depends on your oven, of course. I usually wait until the cake is almost cool before removing the tin.

If you roll back a few entries, you can see that I've already made this with apples, peaches, apricots, frozen raspberries, blueberries, strawberries and whatnot. You can practically use anything, fresh, frozen or dried.

Making this cake needs very little effort and produces highly enjoyable results. It's only a bit more time-consuming if you use apples, as those have to be sliced very thinly.

Comments

[gevr.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot. I am certainly going to try this next week. I'll post pictures of the result :-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You are welcome. As I said, it is almost ridiculously easy to make, and you can vary the ingredients to your heart's desire. I can't wait for apricots becoming cheaper, and I look forward to the appearance of plums to try another variation.

And considering that my oven has only two settings and no timer, easy-to-make cakes are a blessing.

[gevr.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love easy to make cakes because I have some grandkids who like to bake their own cake - and then it is a bonus when it isn't too difficult and complicated to make :-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I used to bake with my pupils a lot in the afternoons, before Boss Woman torpedoed that program, so I needed recipes that were quickly and easily made and could keep lots of kiddies busy at the same time. We never made this particular cake, as I only discovered it this year, but we made apple tarts, carrot cakes and did a great deal of Christmas and Easter baking.

[gevr.livejournal.com]

I love being busy in the kitchen with kids :-D

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

So do I, although having 30 or more of them demanding my attention at the same time could be a bit overwhelming. Especially when I had to watch out so they wouldn't injure themselves with kitchen utensils. ;)

[gevr.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can see that 30 might be a handful to handle :-)