Ingredients: 1 teaspoon Baking cocoa,7 grams Baking powder,450 grams Bittersweet chocolate, chopped small,1 tbsp butter,200 grams Canned red cherries,80 grams Cherry juice,2 tablespoons Cornstarch,200 grams Philadelphia regular cream cheese,1 Egg,4 eggs, beaten,1/4 cup flour,1 tablespoon Lemon juice,500 grams German Quark,1/5 teaspoon Salt,60 grams Caster sugar,1 teaspoon Vanilla extract,8 grams Vanilla sugar
Instructions:
- Grease a 10 inch springform pan and line with a baking paper. To prepare the curst, combine and sieve first five ingredients first in a bowl, cut in butter and egg until a smooth dough forms. Press firmly on the bottom and sides of prepare pan. Use a fork to prick the crust in regular intervals. Cover and chill the crust for 30 minutes.Pre-heat oven to 200C/400F. Stir chopped chocolate and sugar in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water until melted and smooth.
- Remove bowl from over water and stir in the vanilla extract.
- Let cool briefly until lukewarm but still pourable.Blend quark and cream cheese in another bowl until smooth.
- Add in cocoa powder and 1 tbsp cornstarch. Stir to combine. Blend in eggs, one at a time. Gently stir in lukewarm chocolate until completely blended.
- Pour filling over crust. Press cherries lightly into chocolate mixture if using.
- Bake until the filling is set, about 50 minutes. Turn off the oven and let cool in oven with door ajar for about 1 hour. Take out and cool completely. Chill the cake overnight.In a pot, combine sugar and 1 tbsp cornstarch.
- Add in cherry, lemon juice and stir until smooth. Cook over medium heat, stirring, until the mixture boils and thickens.
- Remove from heat and let cool.
- Drizzle the chocolate cheesecake with cherry sauce or simply just dust with icing sugar.
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