My mum makes the most fabulous baked cheesecake. So, I got under her feet in the kitchen last week to photograph proceedings.
This is the recipe, I think it’s from a 1970s magazine. Though mum knows exactly what to do, she still gets it out every time she makes the cake… a bit like a good luck charm 😉
The dough that will become the base of the cake. None of this crumbling-up-biscuits malarkey…!
The main ingredient for baked cheesecake is Quark, also called ‘Topfen’ in Southern Germany. When I first moved to the UK more than 20 years ago, it wasn’t available, but now you can get it in virtually any larger supermarket.
And in goes the filling, which seemed to take ages to mix together 🙂
An egg yolk brushed over the top before baking gives the cake a nice golden colour
A side view of the finished article
Mmmmmmmhhhhh!
And it was totally delicious 🙂
In case you’ve missed my mum’s equally fabulous damson dumplings, just click here.
Errrm what’s wrong with crushed up biscuits?! I guess you won’t be interedted in a post about the cake with a biscuit crumb base that I’m making for my colleagues next week then? 😉
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I’m interested in ALL sorts of cakeage. Some are superior to others, that’s all I’m saying 😉
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This one uses crushed up chocolate hobnobs mixed with melted butter…
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This is what your little graph is going to do…
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It looks amazing. When I moved back to Moscow I was surprised to discover that cheesecake, hitherto unknown to Russians, has become rather popular. Of course we did have our own semi-cheesecake-y treat called ‘syrniki’ http://gotovim-doma.ru/view.php?r=63-recept-Syrniki (individual farmers cheesecakes, no crust)
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Ooooh, I think I had those in Moscow once – delicious!!!!! 🙂
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Ooooh, yes please! You can’t beat a good cheesecake.
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My thoughts exactly…. and I’m now so far from my mum’s kitchen and also from Golder’s Green… sigh.
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I am going to have to try making this. If it looks ok I may post a photo. If I can take one before it is eaten!
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Hurrraaah!
My mum puts less sugar in than it says in the recipe, and the quark is low-fat, so it’s probably not the worst kind of cake there is.
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Ditto my mom with syrniki (you didn’t think I made them myself, did you?), so that they can be a part of a savory breakfast, for example with ham.
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Don’t worry… I’m well aware that your kitchen skills are on a par with mine…
Can I come over for breakfast?!
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Absolutely! And I will make killer Bloody Marys all by myself!
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You’re waaaaay ahead of me!
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You can always scavenge for food, but everyone must know how to make a proper drink. It also makes one’s own cooking taste better 😉
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I think you may have the start of a new blog post there…
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As a matter of fact there already IS one in the works on a particular (different) alcoholic beverage that might be of a special interest to you (honestly, there’s even a shout-out to you in the text), and there are notes on a cocktail post as well!
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Cool 🙂
I’m concocting one on beer….
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OMG. You stole mine! No, j/k, it will actually probably be complementary, mine will be Russia-Anna-specific. You sure will have insights!
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I doubt there’ll be much overlap… you can never write too much about food and drink!
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I had no idea what Quark was, googled it, and got a little grossed out. I can’t really do any weird dairy but this looks SO GOOD in its final form…
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Dude, it’s just TVOROG???
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She was clueless. Up to now 😉
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Ha! I am on a Mission to Civilize (the newsroomTM). No, really, it’s pretty much the most basic Russian dairy product, on par with sour cream. Actually we used to make it ourselves from the fresh milk (like, literally straight from under a cow) at the dacha. It’s good in so many things, sweet and savory. In the US, the closest equivalent is Farmer’s Cheese.
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Farmer’s Cheese… interesting 😉
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I rest my case 😉 tvorog is pretty sketchy!
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But it’s just a kind of cheese… google any cheese and how it’s made, or yoghurt, and you’ll be grossed out. You’ll have eaten quark in Russia.
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Cheese in general is pretty gross. Maybe if they were all called such cool names like quark I’d be more into them!
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You don’t like cheese?!
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I do if I don’t think about it too much 🙂
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Goes for pretty much everything that’s enjoyable, I find 😉
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So true!
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OMG, it’s cheese, not The Kraken!
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I couldn’t manage a whole Kraken… but I like squid!
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I ruined myself by going vegan for half a year… After that, dairy kind of freaked me out.
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I did the vegan thing for two years… but that was 25 years ago, so I’m well and truly over it! Bring on the dairy 🙂
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Ahh that looks so good! Now that I have a proper kitchen, I may have to have a go at some cake-making myself, as I’m experiencing serious food envy right now.
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Go for it! And we want pictorial evidence 🙂
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Sooooo many different ways to make cheesecake! Your Mum’s kind looks delicious, too.
I’m heading to Bavaria myself in December for the Christmas markets 🙂
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Aha! Wrap up warm, and bring a big appetite 🙂
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: Try 25 different kinds of Plätzchen. Pictorial evidence required.
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Go on then – what’s Plätzchen?
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Do an image search 😉
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A kind of biscuity thing 🙂
Not sure I’m up to 25 different kinds, but I might try one or two!
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One or two???? They won’t even let you into a Christmas market with THAT kind of attitude!
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I’ll make up for it with gluhwein 😉
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Perfect for dunking those Plätzchen…!
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I really just shouldn’t bother with your blog before eating breakfast.
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A fatal mistake… especially these days when I’ve actually got food pics to share 😉
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Oh my goodness does this look delicious!
New York cheesecake is well known for its deliciousness, but I’d bet your mom’s cheesecake could beat the local delicacies in a taste contest. (I would like to be the taste tester!)
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That job is already taken, lol.
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Thanks for the link to this, I missed it before. Baled cheesecake or any kind of cheesecake is my all time favorite! This looks super yummy! I might have to translate that recipe at the top 🙂
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It is delicious… my mum uses less sugar than it says, though. Baked cheesecake totally rules 🙂
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I agree! I have had a whole baked cheesecake before as a birthday cake 🙂
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Oh Lordy Lordy! This looks like heaven on a fork. I’d sell my soul (or my thighs) for a bite of it, if I were in sniffing distance of it. Thank God for the seas between us!
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I’m sure you could create an approximation… just don’t forget to post it 🙂
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OMG this looks absolutely delicious!!!!
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It was! The top turned out a wee bit to dark (I don’t want to call it ‘burnt’, lol). Puderzucker would have helped.
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