• Egg
  • Flour
  • Butter
  • Yogurt

German Cheesecake (Käsekuchen)

  • Cooking Time:

  • Prep Time:

  • About:

  • 1 Cake:

  • Crust
  • 1 whole Egg
  • 150 g Flour
  • 1 tsp Backpulver (or .25 TL Baking Powder)
  • 65 g Sugar
  • 65 g Butter
  • Filling
  • 1 Kg Quark (Greek Yogurt also works)
  • 250 g Sugar
  • 2 tsp Vanilla Sugar
  • 4 whole Egg (Whites and Yolks separated)
  • 2 packs Vanilla Pudding (German Brand, Dr. Oetker)
  • 1 shot Cream
  • 3 tbsp Butter
  • .25 tsp Backpulver (or .25 TL Baking Powder)

  1. Directions:

  2. To make crust:
  4. Combine egg, flour, baking powder, sugar, and butter in a bowl to create a crust. Leave to cool in refrigerator.
  6. Butter and flour a spring form. Press cooled crust into form, including the sides.
  8. To make filling:
  10. Separate eggs: put egg whites and yolks in separate bowls.
  12. Stir together the Quark, sugar, vanilla sugar into a bowl. Next mix in the 4 egg yolks.
  14. Add butter (softened), pudding, cream, and Backpulver and mix well.
  16. To make cheesecake:
  18. Preheat oven to 160-170 C. (Roughly 325F). Beat egg whites and fold into filling mixture. Pour mixture in prepared baking form, laid out and ready to use. Bake for 1-1.5 hours.
  20. Once cheesecake is baked, remove it from form immediately. Let cool and then place in refrigerator.