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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 50 Minutes |
Ready In: 50 Minutes Servings: 12 |
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This European kuchen has a non yeast dough base and apples and quark filling. One can get quark in the US but substitutes may be combinations of ricotta cheese( or cottage cheese ) and sour cream, marscapone cheese, cream cheese loosened with heavy cream. Read more . Also known as Topfen cheese, Quark is a soft fresh cow's milk cheese used in a variety of baking recipes in Europe The Net has pleanty of info on Quark and making substitutes! Again seach out conversion tables if you need help converting the ingredients Ingredients:
mürbteig dough ( mellow dough base, non yeast ) |
200 g flour |
1 pinch salt |
50 g sugar |
1 large egg |
100 g cold butter or margarine |
topping |
8 – 10 large apples |
3 eggs separated |
1 tbs cold water |
125 g sugar |
1 pkt vanilla sugar or use 2 tsp vanilla |
1 tbs semolina |
30 g cornstarch |
1 heaping tsp baking powder |
250 g quark |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 200C
2. Make a dough by mixing the flour, salt, sugar, egg and margarine.
3. Grease a 24-26 cm springform pan
4. Roll out dough and fit into pan
5. Cut apples into slices
6. Beat whites stiff
7. Beat yolks with the cold water then beat in the vanilla sugar, and sugar and beat very creamy and thick
8. In a small bowl combine baking powder, cornstarch and semolina flour
9. Carefully fold this into the egg whites
10. Then blend into the creamed mixture.
11. Fold in the apple slices and the quark
12. Place this apple cheese mixture over the dough and fill pan
13. Bake in middle oven rack,about 50 minutes or done
14. Remove to rack and let cool completely before removing sides from springform pan
15. Dust with powdered sugar if desired
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