Russian Cheese Cake
| Ingredients | ||
| 375 g | all-purpose flour | 3 3/4 cups |
| 40 g | cocoa powder | 3/8 cup |
| 3 | Dr. Oetker Baking powder | 3 level tsp |
| 200 g | sugar | 1 cup |
| 1 pkg | Dr. Oetker Vanilla Sugar | 1 pkg |
| 1 | egg | 1 |
| 200 g | soft butter or margarine | 1 cup |
| Filling | ||
| 250 g | butter or margarine | |
| 500 g | curd cheese (low fat) | |
| 200 g | sugar | 1 cup |
| 1 pkg | Dr. Oetker Vanilla Sugar | 1 pkg |
| 3 | eggs | 3 |
| 1 pkg (40 g) | Dr. Oetker Original Pudding | 1 pkg |
Method
1. To make the dough, mix together the flour with the cocoa powder and baking powder, sift into a mixing bowl and add the other ingredients for the dough. Stir with a hand mixer with kneading hook, first briefly at the lowest setting, then at the highest setting until the dough is formed. Then roll it into a ball using your hands. Wrap in clingfilm and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.
2. Meanwhile start making the filling by melting the butter or margarine in a pan, then leave it to cool. Heat the oven at the top and bottom and grease the bade of the spring form pan.
3. Roll out half the dough and line the greased base of the spring form pan. Roll the rest of the dough into a long cylinder and place it round the dough base, pressing lightly against the spring form pan ring to form an edge 2 cm/ 3/4 in high.
4. Continue making the filling by whisking together the cheese curd, sugar, vanilla sugar, eggs, vanilla pudding powder and melted butter or margarine until a smooth homogenous mixture is obtained. Pour this mixture into the spring form pan and smooth the surface flat. Next tear the rest of the dough into small pieces and scatter over the filling. Put the spring form pan on a shelf in the oven.
Top/bottom heat: about 180°C/350°F (preheated),
Fan oven: about 160°C/325°F (not preheated), Gas mark 4 (not preheated)
Baking time: about 65 minutes
5. Leave the cake to cool in the mould placed on a rack.
This recipe was published in the book German Baking today by the Dr. Oetker Verlag (ISBN 978-3-7670-0599-0). This and many other Dr. Oetker baking and cook books can be ordered on www.amazon.ca
