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🍰 Classic Cheesecake

585 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Mix flour, baking powder, 50 grams of sugar, and a pinch of salt in a bowl.
  2. 2. Cut the cold butter into small cubes.
  3. 3. Stir the butter cubes into the flour mixture.
  4. 4. Add one egg and knead everything into a smooth dough.
  5. 5. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap.
  6. 6. Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
  7. 7. Rinse a lemon thoroughly with hot water.
  8. 8. Finely grate about 1 teaspoon of the lemon zest.
  9. 9. Separate the remaining eggs into egg whites and egg yolks.
  10. 10. Whip the egg whites in a separate bowl until stiff.
  11. 11. Stir quark, 4 egg yolks, 200 grams of sugar, vanilla sugar, 2 teaspoons of lemon juice, the lemon zest, and 2 teaspoons of cornstarch in another bowl.
  12. 12. Gently fold the whipped egg whites into the quark mixture.
  13. 13. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
  14. 14. Line a springform pan with baking paper.
  15. 15. Grease the sides of the pan with butter.
  16. 16. Roll out the cake dough evenly.
  17. 17. Place the dough into the springform pan.
  18. 18. Form a border about 4 centimeters high from the dough.
  19. 19. Pour the quark mixture into the pan.
  20. 20. Bake the cake for about 40 minutes.
  21. 21. Cover the springform pan with aluminum foil after 40 minutes.
  22. 22. Bake the cake for another 30 minutes.
  23. 23. Let the cheesecake cool down in the slightly open oven.
  24. 24. Serve the cake after it has cooled down.

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