Name: Marbled Cheesecake with Quark Cheese
Yield: 1 cake, 10 inches (25 cm) in diameter, or 16 servings, approximately 350 calories and 11 grams of fat per serving
Cuisine: German
Ingredients: 14 ounces (400 g) granulated sugar; ¼ cup (60 ml) water; 12 ounces (340 g) low-fat cream cheese, at room temperature; 1 pound 5 ounces (595 g) quark cheese; 1 ounce (30 g) powdered sugar, sifted; 8 ounces (225 g) Graham Cracker Crumbs; ¼ cup (60 ml) vegetable oil; 6 eggs; 1½ ounces (40 g) unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted; 1 tablespoon (15 ml) vanilla extract

Preparation info

1 cake, 10 inches in diameter, or
16
servings, approximately 350 calories and 11 grams of fat per serving

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef

By Bo Friberg

Published 2003

About

Quark is a continental-style fresh cheese, similar to the cottage cheese found in the United States. This curd cheese is slightly more acidic than cottage cheese and low in fat and calories, typically containing about 1 gram of fat and 85 calories per 3½-ounce (100-g) serving. Quark is immensely popular in Germany, accounting for almost half of the cheese consumption there, the majority used in cooking.

In addition to its obvious application in cheesecake, quark is used in a number