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🍰 Crunchy Cheesecake with Shortcrust Base
319 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 220 g wheat wholemeal flour
- 130 g coconut blossom sugar
- 2 tsp cocoa powder
- salt
- 5 eggs
- 120 g butter
- 1 kg quark (semi-fat)
- 1 organic lemon
- 1 vanilla pod
- 50 g cornstarch
- 250 g strawberries (for garnishing)
- erythrit powdered sugar (for dusting)
Instructions
- 1. Put flour, 50 g coconut blossom sugar, cocoa, a pinch of salt, one egg, and cubed butter into a bowl.
- 2. Quickly knead the ingredients into a soft shortcrust dough.
- 3. Wrap the dough in cling film.
- 4. Place the dough in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes to chill.
- 5. Drain the quark mixture well so that it drips dry.
- 6. Rinse the lemon under hot water and pat it dry.
- 7. Finely grate the lemon zest.
- 8. Cut the lemon in half and squeeze out the juice.
- 9. Slit the vanilla pod lengthwise.
- 10. Scrape out the seeds with a knife.
- 11. Separate the remaining eggs for the quark mixture.
- 12. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form (meringue).
- 13. Beat the egg yolks and the remaining coconut blossom sugar with the beaters of your hand mixer until creamy.
- 14. Stir in the quark, 1 tsp lemon zest, 3 tbsp lemon juice, vanilla seeds, and cornstarch.
- 15. Gently fold the meringue into the mixture.
- 16. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured work surface.
- 17. Place the dough in a greased springform pan.
- 18. Pour the quark mixture into the pan.
- 19. Bake the cake in the preheated oven at 180 °C (convection 160 °C; gas mark 2–3) for about 50 minutes.
- 20. Take the cake out.
- 21. Let it cool.
- 22. Release the cake from the springform pan.
- 23. Wash the strawberries.
- 24. Remove the stems.
- 25. Halve the strawberries.
- 26. Dust the cheesecake with erythritol powdered sugar for serving.
- 27. Cut the cake into pieces.
- 28. Serve with the strawberries.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 319
- Protein: 16 g · Fett/Fat: 15 g · Carbs: 29 g