Recipe

Versatile Pineapple Cheese Cake Recipe

	Midgelet / All my dishes 3 weeks, 5 days 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:20m Cook:180m Servings:16	Midgelet
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Ingredients

Crust

1 cup sifted all-purpose flour

1/4 cup sugar

6 tablespoons butter, softened

1 egg yolks, slightly beaten

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Filling

3 cups Quark ( or Greek Yoghurt,, or cream cheese, or ricotta, or mascarpone cheese )

1 3/4 cups sugar

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon vanilla

5 eggs

2 egg yolks

Pineapple Glaze

3 tablespoons sugar

1 tablespoon cornstarch

1 , 1 lb 4 oz can crushed pineapple

Maraschino cherries

Directions

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.