Versatile Pineapple Cheese Cake Recipe

Versatile Pineapple Cheese Cake

From midgelet 15 years ago

Here is a lovely cheesecake recipe where one can easily sub another similar product for the quark cheese. It also has a yummy pineapple topping too

Prep does not include the hour in off oven and chill time
crust:
Mix flour and sugar together in a medium-size bowl; cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture is crumbly.
Add egg yolks and vanilla; mix lightly with fork just until pasty holds together and leaves side of bowl clean.
Chill 1 hour.
Roll 1/3 of chilled dough to cover bottom of a 10-inch spring-form pan.
Bake at 400 degrees for 8 minutes or until lightly browned; cool.
Grease sides of the spring-form pan; roll remaining dough into 2 strips about 15 inches long and 2 1/2 inches wide; press onto sides of cooled pan and fit together with bottom.
Refrigerate until filling is prepared.
filling:
Blend Quark, sugar, flour and vanilla.
Beat with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
Add eggs and egg yolks, one at a time, beating to blend each addition; pour into crust.
Bake in a very hot oven (475 degrees) for 12 minutes; lower temperature to 250 degrees and bake 1 1/2 hours longer.
Turn off oven; let cake remain in oven 1 hour.
Cool and then chill thoroughly
Glaze:
Combine sugar and cornstarch in a small saucepan.
Slowly stir in pineapple.
Cook, stirring constantly, over medium heat, until mixture thickens and bubbles 1 minute; cool and spread on cheesecake.
Decorate with maraschino cherries.
Best served cold. Makes 16 servings.

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