Sunday, August 28, 2011

Time to bake good cake!

Well... I'm sure that lots of you guys have moments like: "I must eat something sweet now!" and then you just check all your cupboards in the kitchen to find something that has a little sugar. But what will you do when you find that there is no candies and the only sweet thing is just one or two bags of sugar? If you have oven in your kitchen there is no problem with it - bake a cake!
Cheesecake is one of my favourite cakes. It's really simple and quick to prepare. I learned to bake this cake with a small, old book, where you can find a simple and very reliable recipes for the tastiest cakes in the world. And I'm not talking about those for which you need expensive ingredients, special decorations or something like that. Of course I don't assume that everyone has one kg quark in his fridge, but as you know, it's not a problem to go to the nearest store with dairy products and just buy what you need (at least in Poland :)). So here we go!

Exquisite Cheesecake

Ingredients:
  • 1 kg quark (cheese)
  • 8 eggs
  • 400 g (about 2 cups) confectioners' sugar
  • 250 g butter
  • 40 g (2 tablespoon) farina
  • 15 g (1 tablespoon) potato flour
  • 300 g (2 teaspoon) baking powder
  • 1 g (1/3 teaspoon) lemon oil
  • 100 g raisins - if you want, but if not just don't add them
The Recipe:
1. Beat egg whites till stiff.
2. Cream quark, part of sugar and butter.
3. Add remaning sugar to egg yolks and whisk until white.
4. Mix farina, baking powder and flour. Combine quark, whisked egg yolks, farina and flour and mix well.
5. Add previously soaked and drained raisins and lemon oil. Mix well again briefly.
6. Finally add egg whites and fold delicately (it's really important!)
7. Pour into prepared baking pan and bake at 170°C, 50 minutes.
8. After baking wait until it cool down and then put it to fridge for a few hours. Then you can be sure that the cake won't fall apart while cutting.

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