Quark Sponge Cake – the perfect cake with champagne

Photo: Dirty Kitchen Secrets

Soft layers of vanilla sponge with a cream and quark lemony filling that’s studded with fresh raspberries. Bliss.

The layers of sponge cake are lovely and airy thanks to the method which incorporates beaten egg whites into the cake batter. There’s also no butter here to weigh things down.

What’s “quark”? I hear you ask.

Quark is a type of fresh cheese that’s very popular in Europe. It’s somewhere between a light cream cheese, creme fraiche, mascarpone and yogurt. You get the idea – basically it’s delicious.

While you might have to search a little, you can usually find quark in specialty grocers (including Whole Foods) or cheese shops. A bowl of quark and fresh fruit for breakfast is one of life’s simple pleasures.

This recipe is from Dirty Kitchen Secrets.

If you’re looking for more summer cake recipes may I suggest this Cherry, Strawberry Red Currant Cake recipe, this Passion Fruit Cheesecake, or how about an exotic and tropical Pina Colada Cake.

Quark Cake Recipe

 

Ingredients

For the cake:

• 100g caster sugar
• 1 tablespoon water
• 1 whole egg
• 2 eggs, separated
• 100g self-raising flour
• ½ a lemon zest
• a teaspoon of cold butter

For the quark filling:

• 2 eggs, separated
• 100ml double cream
• 100g caster sugar
• 500g quark cheese
• 170g Raspberries (or berry of choice)
• 2 sachet of powdered gelatin or 8 leaves of gelatin
• 1 lemon, juiced

Instructions

1. For the full recipe go here.

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