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Russian "plucked cake" with quark filling
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1 hour 45 min
In Germany this cake is called "Russischer zupfkuchen" (translated as "Russian plucked cake"). It is a nice cross between a chocolate cake and a cheesecake and named as such when the remaining cake dough is "plucked" and placed on top of the filling mixture before baking. Despite its name, this cake is not Russian in origin, rather, many grandmas in East Germany made it.
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10 people made this
Ingredients
Makes: 1 cake
- For the chocolate cake
- 300g plain flour
- 40g cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons (10g) baking powder
- 200g butter, at room temperature
- 180g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- For the filling
- 3 eggs
- 150g caster sugar
- 500g quark cheese
- 50g butter, at room temperature
- 200ml double cream
- 2 teaspoons (10g) vanilla sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- lemon zest (optional)
Method
Prep:45min ›
Cook:1hr ›
Ready in:1hr45min
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, cocoa and baking powder and mix well.
Beat the butter with sugar until light and fluffy.
Add butter-sugar mixture to flour mixture; the mixture will look crumbly.
Add eggs, one at a time. You will end up with a soft mixture. Put in the fridge while preparing the filling.
Beat eggs with sugar until mixture increases in volume and looks lighter in colour.
Continue beating and gradually add quark, butter, cream, vanilla sugar, salt and lemon zest (if using).
Preheat oven to 180 C / 160 C fan / Gas 4. Grease a 24 to 28cm cake tin and dust lightly with flour.
Take the cake mixture out of the fridge, divide into two. Roll out one of the pieces to line the base of the prepared cake tin, allow the base to come a little way up the sides before trimming away any excess. Pour the quark filling into the base.
Pinch or "pluck" little pieces from the second piece of cake dough, placing evenly over the top of the filling.- Bake in the preheated oven for 45 to 60 minutes, depending on the size of your tin. Remove from the oven and allow to cool before slicing and serving.
