German Strawberry Cheese Cake • MyBestGermanRecipes.com

You will love this German Strawberry Cheese Cake – It’s a delicious combination of strawberries, a short cake and a quark filling. Make sure to use really ripe strawberries. Just right for a summer’s day with a cup of German coffee. Happy Baking! Ingredients German Strawberry Cheese Cake 150 g flour 50 g sugar 1 egg 100 g butter 1 tsp baking powder 1 package vanilla sugar – Buy it Here – – How to make Vanilla Sugar –  1 dash saltFilling 125 g butter, room temperature 125 g sugar 250 g quark, 20% – How to Make Quark – 2 eggs 100 g cream cheese ½ package vanilla pudding ½ lemon, juice and zest Topping 500 g strawberries sugar to taste GLAZE: 1 package red cake glaze 250 ml liquid (half water and half apple juice) Baking Instructions Make the Base Dough – Grease a 10 inch spring form with butter. – Mix flour and baking powder, sieve into a bowl. – Add sugar, vanilla sugar, salt, butter and egg. – Knead with hands until you get a smooth dough that can be formed to a ball. – Wrap in plastic foil and keep in fridge for 30 min. – Pre-heat oven to 350 f (180 C, convection 160 C). – Press the dough gently into the spring form bottom and all along the rim. Make the Filling – With a hand mixer beat the butter until it is smooth. – Add eggs and sugar, and mix. Then add quark, cream cheese, pudding powder and lemon. – Mix well until you get a smooth cream. – Spread the cream on top of the dough. – Bake for 35-40 min, remove from oven and let cool off. – Cut strawberries in halves and place them on top of the cake. – Make the glaze by combining liquid, sugar and red glaze package in a bowl, mix well, bring to a boil and when it has thickened spread the glaze evenly over the strawberries. Serve the cake when the glaze had become firm.